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The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
William Hazlitt

Proud, Last, Himself

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
Cleveland Amory

Time, Patience, Human

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.
Marshall McLuhan

Live, Country, Identity

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
Charles Caleb Colton

Men, Others, Write

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.
Deepak Chopra

Body, Less, Modern

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.
Steve Martin

Truth, Someone, Why

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
Shirley MacLaine

Person, Laugh, Himself

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
Allan Bloom

Person, Others, Able

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.
Wilson Mizner

Good, After, While

Folly always knows the answer.
Mason Cooley

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.
Mason Cooley

Not even old age knows how to love death.
Sophocles

Love, Age, Death

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
Laurence J. Peter

Thinks, Expert, Cutting

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
Sitting Bull

Everything, White, Distribute

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Octavio Paz

Alone, Human, Fact

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
William Cowper

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
Herman Melville

Soul, Speak, Sea

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
Mary McLeod Bethune

Human, Soul, Might

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
John Steinbeck

True, Important, Writer

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Age, Heart, Hair

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
Charles Kettering

Time, Stupid, Done

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
Virgil

Woman, Able, Cares

Man knows so much and does so little.
R. Buckminster Fuller

I'm just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what's going to happen tomorrow.
Bob Seger

Simple, Tomorrow, Deep

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.
James Callaghan

Moving, Short, Moment

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson

Strength, Against, Swimming

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
Raymond Chandler

Art, End, Nothing

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
John Donne

Love, Time, Days

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
David Herbert Lawrence

Girl, Everything, Her

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Gertrude Stein

Sure, Everybody, Careful

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