Quotes with plains-man

Quotes 3441 till 3460 of 4539.

  • George Bernard Shaw The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Elbert Hubbard The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Benjamin Watson The only one who can change the heart of man is the Lord. And that will make us want to make things fair for other people.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Tupac Shakur The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
    Tupac Shakur
    American rapper and actor (1971 - 1996)
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  • Oscar Wilde The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Richard M. DeVos The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
    Richard M. DeVos
    American businessman, co-founder of Amway Corp. (1926 - 2018)
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  • Amy Hempel The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.
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    Amy Hempel
    American short story writer and journalist (1951 - )
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  • Sir William Temple The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Betty Friedan The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. There is no other way.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Al Goldstein The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Henry Lewis Stimson The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
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  • Charles F. Kettering The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry Miller The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Aleister Crowley The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Erich Fromm The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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