In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes
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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
DIOGENES In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
DIOGENES OF SINOPE A man's house is his castle.
JAMES OTIS My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man's house was his castle. He had a flat rule...
THURGOOD MARSHALL A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
OSCAR WILDE A man's face is not a rich person's lawn; you are wasting resources if you devote that much ...
ELLIE KEMPER A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
ALEXANDER SMITH A woman's place is in the house - the House of Representatives.
BELLA ABZUG No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
OSCAR WILDE When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
EURIPIDES My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t...
DEYTH BANGER There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgro...
KAREL CAPEK There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
SAPPHO A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.
BURT BACHARACH A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a ric...
DIOGENES Don't marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to keep you happy. No rich m...
STANESS JONEKOS They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
CHARLIE PARKER There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
GERTRUDE STEIN I ended up living at OJ's because Nicole bought a home that no longer had a guest house. OJ offe...
KATO KAELIN A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
MARCUS AURELIUS What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fai...
J. C. RYLE The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the wo...
SAMORA MACHEL There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
MAHATMA GANDHI No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a ma...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compe...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Pride will spit in pride's face.
THOMAS FULLER Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to fe...
V. S. NAIPAUL After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
PROVERB Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.
SAINT AMBROSE With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich ...
GEORGE CRABBE When standing face to face with myself, I far too often refuse to look in the mirror. When standing ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I believe in energy like dark energies. I believe that when a family moves into a house where six mu...
RYAN REYNOLDS Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
HOMER There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
WILLIAM JAMES A poor man but with a rich idea,is nothing but a rich man.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially Amer...
ED SHEERAN No man's credit is as good as his money.
JOHN DEWEY Every age, and especially our own, stands in need of a JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend...
FRANCIS BACON Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend...
FRANCIS BACON SR. No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
HOSEA BALLOU A poor man who marries a rich woman is not his wife, but a ruler.
VIKRANT PARSAI There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under th...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD This place, this house, nothing grows there. This is a place of no color, no growth - nothing can re...
BETH LEONARD My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cu...
ABBY WAMBACH No man wants to feel that he's there because of his woman's biological clock or because he...
GEORGE WEINBERG There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected throu...
YOUSUF KARSH The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn hi...
GEORGE ORWELL One my house there?s no damage. No damage to my house, inside.
GERALDINE THIEDE Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is the...
BEN AZAI Let's face it: fitness is boring. But it's critical to be extremely dedicated to whatever yo...
HARBHAJAN SINGH In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compl...
MICHAEL LEUNIG The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and...
BERT WILLIAMS I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said '...
BRADLEY WHITFORD A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS I love being immersed in nature, going to places in the world that are pristine and untouched by man...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing ba...
HENRY ROLLINS No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES Even now, when I have time to consider what I've been and what I am, I doubt I comprehend my humanit...
NORMAN LOCK Even when people are rich and successful on TV shows, there's always some trouble - you have to ...
DREW CAREY Spit in my face you Jews, and pierce my side.
JOHN DONNE Don't get married in a house where there is no toilet.
JAIRAM RAMESH A rich man is not a man without problems but a man whose faith has conquered the problems even when ...
IKECHUKWU IZUAKOR I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nob...
ELIZABETH WARREN The rich man may never get into heaven, but the pauper is already serving his term in hell.
ALEXANDER CHASE A man's home is his wife's castle.
ALEXANDER CHASE A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.
JOSEPH HALL The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how th...
CARINE ROITFELD My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in 'To Kill A Mockingbird': You see him w...
MARY-LOUISE PARKER But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is...
DAVID MCCALLUM A million dollars in the presidential election is a spit in the ocean. It's not a lot of money.
KENNETH LANGONE There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one...
ALAN PATON When the weather's good, there's no better place to be than the British countryside.
ROSS KEMP If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery store...
WILL.I.AM When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT We tend to think that God doesn’t struggle with mundane things like frustrations and anger. But on...
SUNDAY ADELAJA There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles w...
WILLIAM HARVEY Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We love our planet Earth. We should - it is our home, and there's no place like home. There can&...
DIMITAR SASSELOV Not that I have the power to clutch my hand
When his fair angels would salute by palm,
But for...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I love Louisiana. There's no place on earth like Louisiana, and there's no city on earth lik...
DON LEMON There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his ow...
ERIC HOFFER If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.
WILLIAM PRESCOTT A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
RICHARD WHATELY Many a rich man’s bed is bigger than many a poor woman’s bedroom; his bedroom, her house.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
JOHN LOCKE Elvis used to have parties at his house - and I've told this story a million times - but they we...
TERI GARR Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In othe...
JAMES ALTUCHER There's not a man, woman or child on the face of the earth who doesn't enjoy a tasty beverag...
DAVID LETTERMAN If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.
AUBERON HERBERT I'm a rich man, but I don't want to be a miser.
CHEN GUANGBIAO o each his Dulcinea, that he alone can name...to each a secret hiding place where he can find the ha...
MITCH LEIGH If the money's right, I'm happy to bust up the other side of his face... No problem.
LENNOX LEWIS Oft he seems to hide his face, / But unexpectedly returns / And to his faithful champion hath in pla...
JOHN MILTON It's time that Americans dealt seriously with guns, getting in place strong and appropriate meas...
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