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I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.
Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.
Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.
Women may get to wear lots of pretty colors, but men get the comfortable shoes. Anita Blake Vampire Hunter
It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.
Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor
This question is posed to mayself, am I a man who thinks he's an angel? Or an angel who thinks he's a man?
Our society and institutions are built to push men and women into different roles. We need to change that.
The turning point in history will be the moment man becomes aware that the only god of man is man himself.
There is not one world for man and one for animals, they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.
Coming into Los Angeles, bringing in a couple of keys. Don't touch my bags, if you please Mr. Customs man.
For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
I have just come up with a wonderful solution to end all wars. Let me give directions on how to get there.
Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.
Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.
If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.
How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.
Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.
It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.
To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.
To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.
One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
I'd rather see a woman elected...They understand they can't spend more money than the old man brings home.
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.
There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'
It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!
An Eskimo shaman said, Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls.
Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.
Johnny Vassilaros is the man who has created the finest cup of coffee ever served in the city of New York.
If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.
The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot.
Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.
There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
A good man does not worry about not being known by others, but rather is concerned about not knowing them.
The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time.
If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.
We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.
Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living.