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Man Quotes by Robert Benchley
- The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
- Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.
- The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
- Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and…
- We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a…
- A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar…
- One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been…
- A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a…
- The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice.
- The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense if quoted as…
- A man gets on a train with his little boy, and gives the conductor only one ticket. 'How old's your kid?' the conductor says, and…
- There is something about saying Ok and hanging up the receiver with a bang that kids a man into feeling that he has just pulled…
- Next we come to the bronchial buster, or the man (it is usually a man) who, being in the throes of a terrific throat and…
More Man Quotes
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- A man can die but once. — William Shakespeare
- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle