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Best Man Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- Don't write about Man; write about a man.
- If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.
- When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.
- If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
- There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support…
- I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving he can outwit nature and more time tasting…
- As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not…
- Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. ... [The businessman] is speaking a language that is familiar to…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle