Quotes with plains-man

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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Algernon Sydney 'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes 'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • John Selden 'Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Robert Browning 'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Alcaeus of Mytilene 'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.
    Alcaeus of Mytilene
    Ancient Greek poet
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  • Miguel de Cervantes 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Sir Walter Scott 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor man's heart through half the year.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Billy Bush 100 million iphones don't lie. What an amazing man. He is the apple of all of our i's. We have an i everything and its all so amazing.
    Billy Bush
    American radio and television host (1971 - )
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  • Brendan Francis A baseball park is the one place where a man's wife doesn't mind his getting excited over somebody else's curves.
    Brendan Francis
    Irish poet and writer (1923 - 1964)
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  • Benjamin Franklin A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • Samuel Butler A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Ambrose Bierce A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man, who has no gills.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Jean Rostand A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • John Steinbeck A book is like a man: clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Gian Vincenzo Gravina A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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  • Bert Leston Taylor A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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