Quotes with plains-man

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  • Bill Cosby If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Ouida If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Horace Mann If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Bhagavad Gita If any man thinks he slays, and if another thinks he is slain, neither knows the ways of truth. The Eternal in man cannot kill: the Eternal in man cannot die. He is never born, and he never dies. He is in Eternity, he is for evermore. Never-born and eternal, beyond times gone or to come, he does not die when the body dies.
    Bhagavadgita Ch. 2, v. 19
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Albert Camus If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Maria Montessori If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Lord Chesterfield If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Anne Bradstreet If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
    Anne Bradstreet
    English American poet (1612 - 1672)
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  • Hannah More If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • William Somerset Maugham If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Andrew Johnson If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Samuel Johnson If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Betty Friedan If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class. This is female chauvinism. Friedan, Betty. 1998.
    It Changed My Life: Writings on the Womens Movement
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Bob Guccione If I were asked for a one line answer to the question' What makes a woman good in bed?' I would say, 'A man who is good in bed.
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  • Ben Wheatley If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.
    Ben Wheatley
    English filmmaker and screenwriter (1972 - )
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