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Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.


Sidney J. Harris

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BIBLE 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.
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STEVEN BRUST A man who is wise is only as wise as his wife thinks he is.
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PROVERB 'Tis my opinion every man cheats in his own way, and he is only honest who is not discovered
SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE The value of an idea has nothing to do with the success of the man who expresses it
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GERMAN PROVERB A man who thinks he is smarter than his wife, has a very smart wife!
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BIBLE As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7].
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THOMAS WOLFE A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
E. W. HOWE A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
EDWARD W. HOWE He who corrects an arrogant man earns insult; and he who reproves a wicked man incurs opprobrium.
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG A man who has learnt little, grows old like an ox; his flesh grows, but his knowledge does not grow.
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER A young man idle, an old man needy.
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ABU BAKR A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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WILL DURANT An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.
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DALE CARNEGIE No suffering befalls the man who calls nothing his own.
THE DHAMAPADA Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
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ALGERNON SIDNEY If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary ...
ALGERNON SIDNEY God helps those who help themselves.
ALGERNON SIDNEY Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
ALGERNON SIDNEY The peasant thanked her with their tears, When food and clothes were given; "This is a joy," t...
ALGERNON SIDNEY He will go back to the old faith he learnt Beside his mother's knee.
ALGERNON SIDNEY He told me once The saddest thing that can befall the soul, Is when it loses faith in God and ...
ALGERNON SIDNEY The day is short, the work is much.
ALGERNON SIDNEY Where liberty is, there is my country.
ALGERNON SIDNEY Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
ALGERNON SIDNEY If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... t...
PHILIP SIDNEY Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must ...
ALGERNON SIDNEY I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
SIDNEY POITIER Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
SIDNEY HOOK My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
SIDNEY POITIER Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.
SIDNEY SHELDON My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place -...
SIDNEY SHELDON Anyone who assumes that this country is standing still is not a good American, or rather, he is an a...
SIDNEY BUCHMAN The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
ALGERNON SIDNEY If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the s...
SIDNEY LANIER Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old...
SIDNEY SHELDON Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for t...
SIDNEY HOOK To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
SIDNEY POITIER I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I ha...
SIDNEY POITIER Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; ...
SIDNEY LANIER I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to sta...
SIDNEY CROSBY Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me...
SIDNEY SHELDON