Quotes with plains-man

Quotes 4161 till 4180 of 4539.

  • George Bernard Shaw When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ben Jonson When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Edith Evans When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
    Source: Observer (30 september 1956)
    Edith Evans
    English actress (1888 - 1976)
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  • Minna Thomas Antrim When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
    Minna Thomas Antrim
    American writer (1861 - 1950)
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  • Alice Duer Miller When a woman like that whom I've seen so much,
    All of a sudden drops out of touch;
    Is always busy and never can,
    Spare you a moment, it means a man.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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  • Oscar Wilde When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George D. Prentice When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.
    George D. Prentice
    American newspaper editor (1802 - 1870)
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  • Benjamin Harrison When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?
    Source: State of the Union Addresses of Benjamin Harrison
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • George Bernard Shaw When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bhagavad Gita When he has no lust, no hatred,
    A man walks safely among the things of lust and hatred
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Marc Chagall When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.
    Marc Chagall
    Russian-French artist and painter (1887 - 1985)
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  • Abraham Lincoln When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Ben Kingsley When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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  • Booth Tarkington When I get to be a man! Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: When I was a boy! It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Woodrow Wilson When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Bruce Coville When I go into schools to speak, I am not giving a speech - it's really a one-man show. I call it 'didactic standup.'
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Butch Trucks When I listened to Elvin Jones, man, for the first time I heard a drummer that had all the technique plus emotion, passion, feel, and just - good God!
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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