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'Tis better that a man's own works, than that another man's words should praise him


L. Estrange

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UNKNOWN One mans stupidity is another mans wisdom.
LINDSAY KOLB You will never know of another mans heart ache by words alone
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL Never rub another mans rhubarb
JACK NICHOLSON A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.
GEORGE HERBERT No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES An old wise mans shaddow is better then a young buzzards sword.
GEORGE HERBERT Happiness is psychological. It's a mans greed that makes it physical.
BRANDON JAMES What passes as a woman's intuition, is usually nothing more than a mans transparency.
UNKNOWN Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.
TOM KRISTENSEN Prayer is mans greatest power!
W. CLEMENT STONE A mans discontent is his worst evill.
GEORGE HERBERT It's a mans world influenced by women.
JAMES BRADLEY SINCLAIR Hope is the poore mans bread.
GEORGE HERBERT 'Le Mans' is the only racing movie that is totally realistic.
JENSON BUTTON The gentle Hawke halfe mans her selfe.
GEORGE HERBERT Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.
GEORGE HERBERT A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.
PROVERB A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master.
GEORGE HERBERT A valiant mans looke is more then a cowards sword.
GEORGE HERBERT Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store.
GEORGE HERBERT I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is...
WILLIAM BLAKE A rich mans dream comes true only through a poor man.
KOWSALAPATHY If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.
SOURCE UNKNOWN The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.
JON KRAKAUER An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.
GEORGE HERBERT In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support salary is a power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON A mans face is his autobiography. A women's face is her work of fiction.
OSCAR WILDE Simplicity make no mans great, but makes life easier and not complicated.
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GEORGES CLEMENCEAU A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried t...
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LARRY HARVEY To forget is Gods gift to man,to forgive is mans gift to God.
KOWSALAPATHY Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance.
OSCAR WILDE A mans true experience offers a great deal of observing what is found to be of value
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS remember an old mans ballsack is like christmas tree ornaments, they are only there for decoration.
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DEAN IBERHYSAJ Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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MARIO ANDRETTI I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored mans political hopes and the ark...
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JOHN DONNE For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look t...
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ROY L. SMITH Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.
BIBLE 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
JOHN WEBSTER 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I never spoke one Word to him in my Life; yet I love him so dearly, that 'tis impossible I should li...
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DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL 'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.
THOMAS FULLER, M. D. 'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it
THOMAS FULLER Tis better, sir, to be brief than tedious.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea...
DEYTH BANGER A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is...
ALEXANDER POPE and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take of...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Argentina are the second best side in the world... and there's no better praise than that
KEVIN KEEGAN real silence is silence without words, silence that speaks words in silence and silence that talks b...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks be...
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TOM KRISTENSEN Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON 'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.
BUDDHA Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
BUDDHA Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though...
BHAGAVAD GITA It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It’s better to honour a living human than to praise a dead.
HERBERT AMARSINGHE I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN Tis far better to ask forgiveness than to ask permission.
GARY R LOCKREY They compare us so much. You hear an analyst saying I'm better than him, and another saying he's bet...
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DOROTHY L. SAYERS A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach peo...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.
L. WOLFE GILBERT If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government ...
L. RON HUBBARD I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
L. RON HUBBARD A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in sc...
L. RON HUBBARD A man is as alive as he can communicate.
L. RON HUBBARD One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I ...
L. RON HUBBARD A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of o...
L. RON HUBBARD I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went...
L. RON HUBBARD When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by d...
L. RON HUBBARD There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published w...
L. RON HUBBARD I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know ther...
L. RON HUBBARD