Man Quotes
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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
Miguel de Cervantes
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The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.
Charles Dickens
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An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.
George Saville
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A man may lie to his psychiatrist, his doctor, his wife, his employer, to God and to Mom, but his teeth tell all.
Stephen Hunter
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When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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Life is too short to be unhappy in business. If business were not a part of the joy of living, we might almost say that we have no right to live, because it is a pretty poor man who cannot get into the line for which he is fitted.
George L. Brown
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“Though sometimes it seems to mention a man who simply acts like a decent human being gets undue praise”
Gabrielle Burton
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It is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.
Homer
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With Pablo, I lose my reason, and with me, he loses his head; and then all that's left is a man pursued by justice and a woman pursued by the media who know and take care of and need each other, despite the pain caused by all the absences, all his crimes and her sins.
Virginia Vallejo
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When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.
Alfred Harmsworth
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In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put out of order.
James Boswell
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You can just fight one man at a time.
Lennox Lewis
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A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Whereas, according to the declaration of that true man of the world Talleyrand, the use of language is to conceal the thoughts; this is to declare in the present instance, when I say I am not able to bear much talking, it means really, and without any mistake, or equivocation, or oblique meaning, or implication, or subterfuge, or omission, that I am not able; being at present rather weak in the head, and able to work no more.
Michael Faraday
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No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.
Thomas Aquinas
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I couldn't live without my music, man. Or me mum.
Robbie Williams
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