“A man who won't demean himself for a dollar is a phoney to my way of thinking.”
"Algren wrote in a letter in late middle age" (1960s), quoted by Richard Flanagan, 2005.
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American novelist, short story writer 1909–1981Related quotes
“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
Oscar Wilde book The Soul of Man under Socialism
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Source: Meditations
“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 584
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
“121. Happy is the man who thinks himself no better than dirt.”
Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) Christian monk
Chapters on Prayer
“I think I know what you did last night. If you send me a thousand dollars, I won't tell your wife.”
Ted Haggard (1956) American minister
Jesus Camp http://www.torontoist.com/archives/2007/01/at_five_i_got_s_1.php, retrieve January 12, 2007.
Samuel Gompers (1850–1924) American Labor Leader[AFL]
What Does the Working Man Want? (speech), Louisville, KY (May 1890)
“If I see a jacker comin' my way, I load my AK,
Don't think I won't spray, it'll be yo last day.”
Z-Ro (1977) American rapperdoj
One Two.
Song lyrics, Cocaine (2009)
“But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.”
Hesiod Greek poet
Source: Works and Days and Theogony