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Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.
More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.
Remember, work, well done, does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man.
Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him.
The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom.
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.
Men have the grand vision, and they pass it on to somebody else to put into practice. Women follow the details more, they want to know that it is being put into practice.
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.
'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home
Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.
Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.
Girls are not just put on earth for men's amusement while they do the important things.
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing.
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.
"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."
The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.
The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.
Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer drudges but co-workers with God.
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
