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The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.
Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.
Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.
I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.
There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.
There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.
That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
I believe the measure of a man isn't just the road he's traveled; it's the choices he's made along the way.
Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.
A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.
There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society.
In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting.
Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.
Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.
On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them.
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.
Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.
A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell.
One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you can't breathe around it and you realize you don't need air.
The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
I am no longer amazed by how quickly a man will justify his change of heart when a spear is leveled his way.
Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.
Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there were.
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.
Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.
No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal.
Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.
The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Unless I have been sorely misinformed, supermodels are powerless to resist a man with illuminated doorsills.
Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.
Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.
All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."
I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.
A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.
I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.
The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?
Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.
A YA heroine does not have to pick up a weapon nor wear men's clothing to be equal to her male counterparts.
I hate labels, and I wear no labels. When a man has to put something around his neck and say I am, he isn't.