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A man who has made no enemies is probably not a very good man.


Antonin Scalia

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WENDY LONG A man with no enemies is a man with no character.
PAUL NEWMAN It is a good man who stands up for his friends, but an honorable man who stands up for his enemies.
VIOLET HABERDASHER A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a fr...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
BRIGHAM YOUNG The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
MARK TWAIN The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
MARK TWAIN An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.
NEILS BOHR An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
NIELS BOHR Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is no...
CATO (MARCUS PORCIUS CATO "THE ELDER") (A/K/A CATO THE CENSOR) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
VOLTAIRE Musharraf is a good man and wants to improve relations with India.
LALU PRASAD YADAV It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
SOPHOCLES My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic.
DANNY AIELLO The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
ADOLF HITLER "The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes"
ADOLF HITLER Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
ANDREW LACK Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
H. L. MENCKEN Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
H.L. MENCKEN Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He ha...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.
C.S. LEWIS You're a good man, Charlie Brown.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
KHALED HOSSEINI A man who does not respect his own mother is absolutely no good.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB I can pick good food, but I can't pick a good man.
DEBBIE REYNOLDS Is Snowden a good man or a bad man? I have no clue and even less interest.
JOHN MCAFEE A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
MAXIM GORKY Chairman Hensarling is a good man who cares about America, and I respect him to the highest degree.
STEPHEN FINCHER No man is such a conquerer as the man who has defeated himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER A man who lies about beer makes enemies
STEPHEN KING No man is a failure who has friends.
CLARENCE The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
MARK TWAIN The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them
MARK TWAIN The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
AMBROSE BIERCE Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
MARCUS AURELIUS Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
JOHN DEWEY The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better
JOHN DEWEY The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries t...
DAISY BATES A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man, who has no gills.
AMBROSE BIERCE There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and...
JOHN STERLING There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and...
JOHN STERLING No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
IRIS MURDOCH A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a sociali...
WILLIAM CASEY The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
MARK TWAIN Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
AMBROSE BIERCE To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Those who believe in goodness, know that goodness is a visible sign of any man of good character. Vi...
APURVA GAGLANI Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion...
MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool
GEORGE SANTAYANA You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR A just man is not one who does no ill, but he, who with the power, has not the will
PHILEMON An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
OSCAR WILDE Then the truth is this: a good man can only aspire to be worthy of a good woman. She'll always be ou...
JAMES ANDERSON A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It's called 'Scalia/Ginsburg.&...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not got one who is a fool.
OSCAR WILDE OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills.
AMBROSE BIERCE The vote shows that a strong, unapologetic, judicial conservative in the mold of Justices Antonin Sc...
WENDY LONG The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool. College examinations notwithstanding, it ...
JEROME LAWRENCE It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
QUINTILIAN The young man who has not wept is a savage,
and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
GEORGE SANTAYANA It really comes down to can you count to five, and frankly, I can only count to two?[Antonin] Scalia...
CLARKE FORSYTHE A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON I'm willing to take a polygraph test to prove that I'm happy about Kahlon's return to po...
YAIR LAPID An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
NIELS BOHR Oh - You're a very bad man!"

Oh, no my dear. I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wiz...
L. FRANK BAUM Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is the...
BEN AZAI No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.
C.S. LEWIS A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR. Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing t...
DALE CARNEGIE A moderately bad man knows he is not very good; a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.
C.S. LEWIS Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.

The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.
MARK TWAIN I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.
MARK TWAIN He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.
TERTULLIAN A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.
OLIN MILLER A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings
OLIN MILLER No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
DAISY BATES No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies
DAISY BATES I have known Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for a long time. He is a good man. He is a decent man.
N. R. NARAYANA MURTHY A politician who has no compassion is nothing but an evil apparition; he is just a ghost, not a real...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
JOHN BUCHAN An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
FULTON J. SHEEN Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are su...
T. B. JOSHUA Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no g...
AMBROSE BIERCE A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal ...
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