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Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby. -- Mason Cooley
[picket sign] COGITO ERGO NOTHING!....[casual passerby:] "Cogito ergo your ass".... -- Donald Barthelme
With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience. -- Joe Orton
In every passerby, everywhere - Christ . . . He is in everyone - there can be no outcasts. -- Caryll Houselander
I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it. -- Bernard Berenson
I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
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? -- Alain de Botton
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. -- Don King
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. -- Israel Shenker
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. -- Jeanne Birdsall
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." -- George Sweeting
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. -- Rachel Joyce
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. -- Thomas Szasz
The waterfall winks at every passerby. -- Marty Rubin
Never have one kid in the room with you, and avoid situations that would look suspect to a passerby. -- Raheem Jarbo
When passerby's ignore homeless people, they don't know if that was a man or woman in uniform previously. They should not be invisible. They cannot be ignored. -- Max Martini

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