Quotes with plains-man

Quotes 4361 till 4380 of 4539.

  • Buffalo Bill You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.
    Buffalo Bills Life Story: An Autobiography
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Auberon Herbert You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Anna Held You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Iain Banks You're a wicked man. Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice.
    Use of Weapons (1990) 237
    Iain Banks
    Scottish author (1954 - 2013)
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  • Betty Grable You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.
    Betty Grable
    American actress, model, and singer (1916 - 1973)
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  • Busta Rhymes You're gonna get your traditional Busta Rhymes and Pharrell collabo. My man Focus from the Aftermath crew; Dr. Dre; the late, great J Dilla got work on the album. It's gonna be great - look forward to the new bang-out.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • B. B. King You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Edmund Burke Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Homer Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Augustus Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
    Augustus
    Roman emperor (63 - 14)
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  • David Seabury Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts...
    David Seabury
    American psychologist, author, and lecturer (1885 - 1960)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Lord George Byron Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon - the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Your neighbor is the man who needs you.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Francis Picabia Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Sir John Denham Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
    Sir John Denham
    Anglo-Irish poet and courtier (1615 - 1669)
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  • Sir Richard Steele Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratification.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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