| Douglas Fairbanks - Self-Help - 1917 - 250 pages
...greater than riches for its dividend is happiness and contentment and we cannot go wrong if we so live that we can look any man in the eye and tell him the truth. To live in the full sense means to be alert. Whatever high moral plane we shall achieve... | |
| Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins - Psychoanalysis - 1920 - 262 pages
...it was a poor psychologist among them who gave it out as his ideal of conduct: "So live that you may look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell." He was trying to look his own herd instinct — his own need of herd approval — in the eye, and tell... | |
| Henry Louis Mencken - Americanisms - 1921 - 526 pages
...another." An elaborate and highly characteristic proverb of the uplifting variety — "So live that you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell" — was first given currency by one of the engineers of the Panama Canal, a gentleman later retired,... | |
| Grosvenor B. Clarkson - Industrial mobilization - 1923 - 648 pages
...whose environment had made him so independent that he could, in the words of the late Paul Morton, "look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell," if need be. Such a man could have done in the middle of 1917 what was done in the spring of 1918. On... | |
| Caroline Bartlett Crane - Architecture, Domestic - 1925 - 270 pages
...somebody comes!" you exclaim. Suppose somebody does come? It would be a good thing for us all to live so that we can look any man in the eye and tell him to sit down and have a bite with us. However, Everyman's House reduces you to no such necessity. One of... | |
| Marion Hawthorne Hedges - Minnesota - 1927 - 244 pages
...evenings before. "I like you, Minturn, because I am a good deal like you, independent and all that. I can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell. I liked the way you plunked it to 'em on that bill the other day. I heard about it from Hurst. It was... | |
| North American review - 1928 - 786 pages
...human goals. The proverbs range between "Unstable as water thou shalt not excel," and "Live so you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell!" And the man who succeeds even passably in conforming to this code is living a more or less perfected... | |
| United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics - Land settlement - 1938 - 842 pages
...what he consumes. Just an old-fashioned yokel, owing no man anything, and living so as to be able "to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to!" All this may sound like an excursion into antique Americana, but right now in Britain, it is a live... | |
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