Quotes with plains-man

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  • Oscar Wilde Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Harry S. Truman Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Washington Irving Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • W. M. Thackeray Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Rita Rudner Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
    Rita Rudner
    American comedian writer (1953 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • William James Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Seneca Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Where a man can live, he can also live well.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Dwight L. Moody Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Cardinal de Retz Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil.
    Cardinal de Retz
    French churchman and writer of memoirs (1613 - 1679)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Dorothy Parker Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Jonathan Swift Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Bunker Roy Wherever I've been, and I've been to over 20, maybe 25, countries in Africa, I've noticed how their backbone is broken. They don't have any confidence in themselves. They always think a white man will solve their problems from outside for them.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Hannah Arendt Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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