His Private Quotes
41 quotes by 38 authors
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A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You…
— Lauren Bacall
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is…
— Samuel Adams
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He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private…
— Theodor Adorno
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
— Samuel Butler
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It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a rock;…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a…
— James Bryce
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If the constitutional right to keep and bear arms is to mean anything, it must, as a general matter, permit a person to possess, carry…
— David Prosser, Jr.
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He is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go away.
— Steven Morrissey
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Hence as a private man has a right to say what wages he will give in his private affairs, so has a Community to determine…
— Samuel Adams
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I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public.…
— Sharon Osbourne
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I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private…
— Susan B. Anthony
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Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its…
— John F. Kennedy
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We can help a person to be himself by our own willingness to steep ourselves temporarily in his world, in his private feelings and experiences.…
— Clark Moustakas
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Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private…
— Mary Abigail Dodge
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Why, friends, you go to do you know not what: Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not: I must tell you…
— William Shakespeare
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The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his…
— Gore Vidal
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The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience…
— Arthur Koestler
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Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered.…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These His Private Quotes
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