Quotes with plains-man

Quotes 3401 till 3420 of 4539.

  • Josh Billings The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Jane Austen The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Confucius The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Richard Nixon The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ernest Bevin The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.
    Ernest Bevin
     
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  • Clark Moustakas The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
    Clark Moustakas
    American psychologist (1923 - 2012)
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  • Albert Einstein The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Barbara Corcoran The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Leo Tolstoy The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Candace Bushnell The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Walter Bagehot The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Arthur Koestler The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being… can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • E. M. Forster The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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