Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court.


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Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court.
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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 poor man but with a rich idea,is nothing but a rich man.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER
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FRANK HERBERT
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is neve...
FRANK HERBERT
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
W. C. FIELDS
A wise man understands, an intelligent man knows, but a fool pretends to know.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY
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CHRISTOPHER FUDGE
The servant of a rich man, is also a rich man.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
I don’t want to become a rich man but a poor man with a lot of money.
VIKRANT PARSAI
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As the Spanish proverb says, He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealt...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
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Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion year...
MARK TWAIN
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EVANS G. VALENS
Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never...
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STANESS JONEKOS
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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A rich man doesn't need to tell you he's rich.
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Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.
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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Do you want to be a man of today or a man of tomorrow?
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK
When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
STANLEY KUBRICK
A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
BRIGHAM YOUNG
A man has to do what a man has to do. But he should bring his wife with him.
SYLVAIN REYNARD
I've never seen a big man with such great court vision. He runs well, shoots with good accuracy and ...
TOM ATTANASI
It is the weak man who urges compromise -- never the strong man.
ELBERT HUBBARD
It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
Fate makes a beggar a king and a king a beggar. He makes a rich man poor and a poor man rich.
CHANAKYA
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ROBERT BADEN-POWELL
A rich man plans for tomorrow ,a poor man dreams about tomorrow.
KOWSALAPATHY
A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these...
HENRY HOME
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THEMISTOCLES
Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
A man with a strong character can’t be conquered
MUHAMMAD SHAHWAN TARIQ
I'm a rich man, but I don't want to be a miser.
CHEN GUANGBIAO
Not to discuss with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To discuss with a man not wort...
CONFUCIUS
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
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GORE VIDAL
He who is satisfied with what he has, is a rich man.
NABIL N. JAMAL
A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?
ANDY ROONEY
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
After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
PROVERB
Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with n...
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Do not run into debt with a rich man, or promise anything to a poor one.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.
COLIN FIRTH
Fuck you and them... I don't like this rules!
DEYTH BANGER
I'm supposed to be a man but I can't help thinking no one ever showed me what that is supposed to lo...
HEATHER DUFFY STONE
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
PLATO
I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
AGNES SMEDLEY
You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.
RICHARD MADDEN
I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like.
BRITTANY MURPHY
Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
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Unification of differences is power.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
OLIVER WENDELL
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR.
This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
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CHRISTINA ENGELA
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ANONYMOUS
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ROMANIAN PROVERB
My father never was and isn't a mean man. You know, he never was ruthless. And he succeeded in l...
MARIA SHRIVER
It takes a strong woman to tolerate a weak man. That said, it takes a strong man to tolerate a weak ...
CATHY BURNHAM MARTIN
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR
It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.
UNKNOWN
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IKECHUKWU IZUAKOR
You're a good man, Charlie Brown.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ
In Brazil, a poor man goes to jail when he steals. When a rich man steals, he becomes a minister.
LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA
The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.
LORD KELVIN
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
This "Know Yourself" is a silly proverb in some ways; To know the man next door is a much more usef...
MENANDER ATHENS
A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
WARD MCALLISTER
Rich and wealth comes to a man only through diligence
SUNDAY ADELAJA
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A rich man has no need of character.
PROVERB
A rich man has no need of character
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