Edward Bickersteth (bishop of Exeter) (1825–1906) English Anglican bishop, died 1906
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 534.
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“because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.”
Stephen King book Duma Key
Source: Duma Key
“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.”
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Revenge
Essays (1625)
Variant: Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.
“The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.”
Alfred Bester book The Stars My Destination
Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 14 (p. 221).
“A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
An earlier unattributed version of this quip appeared in What Man Can Make of Man (1942) by William Ernest Hocking: "He lends himself to the gibe that he is 'so very liberal, that he cannot bring himself to take his own side in a quarrel.'" http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/a_liberal_is_a_man_too_broad_minded_to_take_his_own_side_in_a_quarrel/ <br class="br">Source: As quoted by Guy Davenport (The Geography of the Imagination) at page x in A Liberal Education http://books.google.de/books?id=Dly0RgUc0YcC&pg=PR10&dq=A+liberal+is+a+man+too+broadminded+to+take+his+own+side+in+a+quarrel.&hl=de&sa=X&ei=Xt_OUZSGJcjLswaApYDQBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=A%20liberal%20is%20a%20man%20too%20broadminded%20to%20take%20his%20own%20side%20in%20a%20quarrel.&f=false by Abbott Gleason (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Tide Pool Press, 2010). <br class="br">Source: As quoted by Harvey Shapiro “Story of the Poem”, 15 January 1961, New York (NY) Times, Section SM page 6 https://www.nytimes.com/1961/01/15/archives/story-of-the-poem-the-story-of-the-poem.html?searchResultPosition=1
Fred Astaire (1899–1987) American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and television presenter
Rouben Mamoulian in Lecture and discussion at University of Southern California, December 7, 1975. Tape recording, Special Collections, University of Southern California. (M).
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921) member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizabeth II
World Wildlife Fund: British National Appeal Banquet, London (1962)
The Environmental Revolution: Speeches on Conservation, 1962–77 (1978)
Context: For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can only be relied upon to do anything consistently which is in his own interest. He may have occasional fits of conscience and moral rectitude but otherwise his actions are governed by self-interest. It follows then that whatever the moral reasons for conservation it will only be achieved by the inducement of profit or pleasure.
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
Arthur Schopenhauer book Parerga and Paralipomena
"Psychological Observations"
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Studies in Pessimism
Variant: Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
Source: Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy