Quotes with plains-man

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  • Fred A. Allen A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • August Strindberg A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Oscar Wilde A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Helen Rowland A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Aristotle At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • James Allen Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Oscar Wilde A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Charles Dickens A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Robert Frost A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Henry David Thoreau How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Camille Paglia Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
    As quoted in Sexuality and Gender (2002)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • S. T. Coleridge The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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  • Confucius A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Brian Hwang A man is in love when something in his head, something in his and chest and something in his pants react to a certain woman.
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • J. Russel A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
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