Man Quotes
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Nobody is sicker than the man who is sick on his day off.
Charles E. McKenzie
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Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
Nikolai Gogol
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
John Locke Nazareth
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Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
Thomas A. Edison
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I think that a man should be caring.
Little Richard
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
Blaise Pascal
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War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I'm really a pussycat and this [bad-boy] image has been totally overblown for 30 years. Sure, I used to rumble a little but I don't do that stuff anymore. I'm an old man now. When you reach your 50s, you realise that if you don't mellow, you won't last.
George C. Scott
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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
George Bernard Shaw
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I watched the needle take another man.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
Robert Frost
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I ask you, what am I? I’m one of the undeserving poor: thats what I am. Think of what that means to a man.
George Bernard Shaw
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard Shaw
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I know also another man who married a widow with several children; and when one of the girls had grown into her teens he insisted on marrying her also, having first by some means won her affections. The mother, however, was much opposed to this marriage, and finally gave up her husband entirely to her daughter; and to this very day the daughter bears children to her stepfather, living as wife in the same house with her mother!
T. B. H. Stenhouse
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A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.
Aristotle
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The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.
George Bernard Shaw
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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
Jane Austen
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A sentimentalist—is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.
Oscar Wilde
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A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
Albert Einstein
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The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
John Stuart Mill
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There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God.
Blaise Pascal
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Oscar Wilde
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Why kill good people just to get a bad man?
Loudon Wainwright III
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If there's one man in the world who could play two men, it would be Tiger. In my mind, Furyk is going to play.
Gary Player