One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach.
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One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach
GEORGE ADE One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.
GEORGE ADE One mans stupidity is another mans wisdom.
LINDSAY KOLB Never rub another mans rhubarb
JACK NICHOLSON A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.
GEORGE HERBERT A drunk mans' words are a sober mans' thoughts.
UNKNOWN You will never know of another mans heart ache by words alone
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL 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 Hope is the poore mans bread.
GEORGE HERBERT A mans discontent is his worst evill.
GEORGE HERBERT I've been to 20 Burning Mans, and I've never seen a better one. The group that came this year was a ...
LARRY HARVEY The gentle Hawke halfe mans her selfe.
GEORGE HERBERT It's a mans world influenced by women.
JAMES BRADLEY SINCLAIR Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.
GEORGE HERBERT A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.
PROVERB A valiant mans looke is more then a cowards sword.
GEORGE HERBERT An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.
GEORGE HERBERT I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is...
WILLIAM BLAKE Happiness is psychological. It's a mans greed that makes it physical.
BRANDON JAMES An old wise mans shaddow is better then a young buzzards sword.
GEORGE HERBERT The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.
JON KRAKAUER 'Le Mans' is the only racing movie that is totally realistic.
JENSON BUTTON Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store.
GEORGE HERBERT A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master.
GEORGE HERBERT A mans face is his autobiography. A women's face is her work of fiction.
OSCAR WILDE To forget is Gods gift to man,to forgive is mans gift to God.
KOWSALAPATHY What passes as a woman's intuition, is usually nothing more than a mans transparency.
UNKNOWN If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.
SOURCE UNKNOWN A rich mans dream comes true only through a poor man.
KOWSALAPATHY Simplicity make no mans great, but makes life easier and not complicated.
BRADLEY B. DALINA I don't know if I cut more poison ivy than brush, ... I had perpetual poison ivy for five years.
TED NIERENBERG remember an old mans ballsack is like christmas tree ornaments, they are only there for decoration.
NEGRO FRIJOLES A mans true experience offers a great deal of observing what is found to be of value
BOAZ AKUDE No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES The test of a mans character is not the mistakes he makes but the way he responds to them.
WILLIAM MOYERS You cannot grow sunflowers with poison ivy seeds
ANJIE HENLEY Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance.
OSCAR WILDE Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support salary is a power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Enemies come soon enough in a mans life,' he told me, 'you don't need to seek them out
BERNARD CORNWELL Poison ivy and deer crap and rocks. Oh, my!
DIA REEVES I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I r...
JACKY ICKX A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failedI well know. For its a sign that he tried to ...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU I was Raised Round Junkies,Drunkies and real sluts Holding a poor mans rifle when there is beef not ...
NOBLE DA GENIUS A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried t...
GEORGES CLéMENCEAU If you want to know what a mans like,see how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.''-Sirius black...
J.K. ROWLING No man, woman or country is above God~ To question God's wisdom in giving the individual free will, ...
BJ MORIN I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored mans political hopes and the ark...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of m...
MAYA ANGELOU What is food to one is to another bitter poison.
LUCRETIUS Le Mans runs on a longer track with 48 cars. At Daytona, with more cars and shorter run, drivers are...
TOMMY ARCHER The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ To remove mans comforts he has grown so accustomed to is the true test of his reinvention, whatever ...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL A relative of poison ivy and poison sumac, the cashew contains the same rash-inducing chemicals, kno...
KATE CHRISTENSEN My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to...
CARROLL SHELBY For a mans house is his castle, & domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium; for where shall a ma...
SIR EDWARD COKE Soldiers are the truly responsables for war,if they dont fight,its not gonna be the mans with a suit...
RAJA For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look t...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY It's mans duty to exhibit all the love he can possibly exhibit & exhaust on this plane,because after...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) [31.] Bad Music for Bad People, ... Goo Goo Muck.
POISON IVY RORSCHACH Lux and I have always been reckless and sought out thrills, taken risks, probably blown our minds in...
POISON IVY RORSCHACH Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team mem...
TOM KRISTENSEN And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and th...
JOHN DONNE My last race was at Le Mans in 2000, my first race was in 1959, so I dodged a lot of bullets along t...
MARIO ANDRETTI What is another person's pleasure is another's poison.
CASSANDRA CLARE the one thing about fashion is everyone wants that one moment when they look fabuloous and they feel...
VERONICA WEBB The patrists poison themselves. The matrists tend to decay, which is merely another kind of poison.
THEODORE STURGEON We cannot meet it the threat of dictatorship if we turn this country into a wishy-washy imitation of...
VANNEVAR BUSH To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent
"Love the ...
DEEPAK CHOPRA Women are not attracted to men because they are good looking. Women are attracted to men because the...
NICK KINSELLA I am part of a circuit called 24 Hours of LeMons, where it's a sort of riff on 24 Hours of Le Ma...
MICHAEL TRUCCO Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a mans. It is in th...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY I dont know who it is to blame. Men for treating women like nothing till they were the most revealin...
ANUJ SOMANY I dont know who it is to blame. Men for treating women like nothing till they were the most revealin...
AL STADLER Open Society Foundations is essentially another name for George Soros, who is a committed leftist, o...
TRENT FRANKS In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Le Mans takes the best out of everyone. Winning is important but it's not everything. It's s...
TOM KRISTENSEN It's good soap. It'll get poison ivy off and ring around the collar. And it won't eat up your hands...
BRETTA PERKINS It's good soap. It'll get poison ivy off — and ring around the collar. And it won't eat up your ha...
BRETTA PERKINS Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Yes, with Le Mans, obviously, the approach needs to be different. You have a race only once a year, ...
TOM KRISTENSEN I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I am raising an army of House Bunny's that will be learning all the ancient secrets of a Good Wife. ...
NERISSA IRVING Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress.
JOAN RIVERS I have been waiting to win a world championship since 1985. I've had three cracks at a world tit...
ALLAN MCNISH I never had any financial support or sponsors, and so I always had to, at every level, prove myself ...
TOM KRISTENSEN If Jesus regarded it as important the blessing that comes to one who voluntarily renders help, then ...
EDMUND A. OPITZ Golf's ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoym...
JOHN UPDIKE As a driver, it's fantastic. To come back into the American Le Mans Series with the BMW M3 is the be...
BILL AUBERLEN As a driver, it's fantastic. To come back into the American Le Mans Series with the BMW M3 is the be...
BILL AUBERLEN There comes a point at which you stop giving things up. That is what i won't give up. None of it wil...
ALISON MCGHEE What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.
LUCRETIUS What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS It's good soap. It'll get poison ivy off  and ring around the coll...
BRETTA PERKINS Memes can be visual. Our image of George Washington is a meme. We don't actually have any idea w...
JAMES GLEICK The trick at Le Mans is to get the car 'in the window.' Everything is critical: the tyre pre...
TOM KRISTENSEN What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
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