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  • Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, "Don't you worry about being called names?" retorted, "Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?

    Thinking   Names   Worry  
    Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.112, Vintage
  • Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby.

    Money   Begging   Beggar  
  • Never have one kid in the room with you, and avoid situations that would look suspect to a passerby.

    Kids   Looks   Rooms  
  • I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

  • The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude," said Mr. Penderwick after a long, painful silence. "Of course, at the time I was pretending to be a casual passerby and not a father at all.

    Father   Long   League  
  • You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.

  • Abraham Lincoln once walked down the street with his two sons, both of whom were crying. "What's the matter with you boys?" asked a passerby. "Exactly what is wrong with the whole world," said Lincoln. "I have three walnuts, and each boy wants two."

    Son   Boys   Two  
  • Like Karl Kraus [Wittgenstein], was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby mostly offended his ear - particularly when they happened to speak philosophically; and like Karl Kraus, he suspected that the institutions could not but be corrupt if the idiom of the race was confused, presumptuous, and vacuous, a fabric of nonsense, untruth, deception, and self-deception.

    Confused   Men   Race  
    "Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry". Book by Thomas Szasz and Karl Kraus (p. 67), March 1, 1990.
  • You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.

    Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.88, eKitap Projesi
  • When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own and hide it for someone else to find. I was greatly excited at the thought of the first lucky passerby who would receive a gift in this way, regardless of merit, a free gift from the universe. . . . I've been thinking about seeing. There are lots of things to see, unwrapped gifts and free surprises. The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand.

  • In every passerby, everywhere - Christ . . . He is in everyone - there can be no outcasts.

  • He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was his journey to accept the strangeness of others. As a passerby, he was in a place where everything, not only the land, was open. People would feel free to talk, and he was free to listen. To carry a little of them as he went.

    Mistake   Journey   Land  
  • S'mimasen," Alyss said repeatedly as they brushed against passerby. "What does that mean?" Will asked as they reached a stretch of street bare of any other pedestrians. He was impressed by Alyss's grasp of the local language. "It means 'pardon me,'" Alyss replied, but then a shadow of doubt crossed her face. "At least, I hope it does. Maybe I'm saying 'you have the manners of a fat, rancid sow.

    Mean   Doubt   Shadow  
  • If you are a blackman in America and get stopped by the police, make sure you have a vidio camera. Don't rely on some passerby to film the beating. Rodney King was just lucky.

    Kings   America   Boxing  
  • I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.

    Life   Time   Hands  
  • At first sin was as fragile as a spiders thread, and finally as stout as a ship's hawser; sin arrived as a passerby, next lingered for a moment, then came as a visitor, and finally became master of the house.

    House   Spiders   Next  
    Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books
  • With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

    Joe Orton (2013). “Entertaining Mr Sloane”, p.9, A&C Black
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