Man Takes Quotes
48 quotes by 42 authors
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Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause,…
— Thomas Aquinas
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If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
— Confucius
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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
— Robert Frost
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A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
— Confucius
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If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds…
— Vaclav Havel
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Comes a Time when the blind man takes your hand says DON'T YOU SEE?
— Robert Hunter
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The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable,…
— Robert Frost
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We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating, but…
— Francis Galton
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The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to…
— Herbert Newton Casson
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The man takes a body that is not his, claims it, sows his so-called seed, reaps a harvest - he colonizes a female body, robs…
— Andrea Dworkin
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When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.
— Arthur Golden
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At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink,…
— Edward Rowland Sill
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Man takes great pains to heap up riches, and they are like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless…
— Matthew Henry
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When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.
— Robert Bolt
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The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine Mind…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Take love as a sober man takes wine; do not become a drunkard. If your mistress is sincere and faithful, love her for that; but…
— Alfred de Musset
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What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will…
— Hannah Arendt
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Grateful return for happiness conferred is not the method of exchange in a partnership. The comfort a man takes with his wife is not in…
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Who Wrote These Man Takes Quotes
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