Quotes with plains-man

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  • Benjamin Disraeli A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • William Dean Howells A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it.
    William Dean Howells
    American writer, criticus (1837 - 1920)
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  • Samuel Johnson A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Marcus Aurelius A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • George Moore A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
    George Moore
    Irish writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Frank Dane A man who calls bullshit fertilizer.
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • Mark Twain A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Confucius A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Mario Puzo A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
    The Godfather
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Confucius A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • P. D. James A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.
    P. D. James
    English crime writer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Elbert Hubbard A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Muhammad Ali A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Napoleon A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Walter H. Cottingham A man without ambition is like a bird without wings.
    System: The Magazine of Business (1908)
    Walter H. Cottingham
    Canadian entrepreneur and writer (1866 - 1930)
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  • Barbara de Angelis A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • John Keats A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Robert Browning A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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