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Man Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
- He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.
- That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich…
- A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.
- Working-girls, in pairs and groups and swarms, loitered by these windows, choosing their future boudoirs from some resplendent display which included even a man's silk…
- The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've…
- No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
- A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
- Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in…
- Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
- Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
- There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the…
- Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go…
- For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood…
- Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just as any period…
- It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many…
- Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
- She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or…
- Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man…
- Ours was a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken" --
- I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going…
- Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most…
- Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must…
- No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
- Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as “cruelty.
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- 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