#able man

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#creep #enough #flesh #i #know

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#also #dad #good #good person #individual

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. ↗

— Quintilian

#becoming #except #honorable #man #necessary

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#all things #augments #because #continually #deeds

My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too. ↗

— Magic Johnson

#also #am #anyway #bed #big

If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man. ↗

— Alexander Kluge

#adaptable #although #had #him #man

A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am. ↗

— Edmond Rostand

#affable #am #courageous #courteous #fact

No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#administration #check #civilization #control #could

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me." ↗

— Joseph Addison

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There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

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