Quotes with plains-man

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  • Phillips Brooks Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Edmund Spenser Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
    Edmund Spenser
    English poet (1552 - 1599)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Helen Rowland Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • George Santayana Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Hubert Humphrey Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Groucho Marx Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Hubert Humphrey Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Harold Coffin Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
    Harold Coffin
    American columnist (1905 - 1981)
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  • Arthur E. Waite Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
    Arthur E. Waite
    American-born British poet and mystic (1857 - 1942)
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  • Harry S. Truman Being a President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Buchi Emecheta Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Samuel Johnson Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, ''I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Eliza Cook Better build schoolrooms for ''the boy,'' than cells and gibbets for ''the man.''
    Eliza Cook
    English author and poet (1818 - 1889)
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  • Aldous Huxley Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Erica Jong Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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