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I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.
Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.
Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.
Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.
For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.
Everything gets blamed on the Clintons, every single thing in this world. I think Bill Clinton shot JFK, too.
Since sorrow follows joy As autumn does the spring Man must transcend the joys Of earth, which sorrows bring.
It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.
Men of thought seldom work well together, whereas between men of action there is usually an easy camaraderie.
They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty sceptre, O'er lesser powers that be.
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly
The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart." -Charles Spurgeon
The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.
Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints
In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.
A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.
The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing.
I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.
I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.
Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.
I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.
And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.
I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.
Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
There is not a man born among us who dreams—at first—of service, although in the end, many are bent that way.
Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.
I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.
Every man should measure himself by his own standard. [Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.]
For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl. [Ger., Denn ein wackerer Mann verdient ein begutertes Madchen.]
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.
I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being.
There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste.
The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.
Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.
You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.
Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.
To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible.
If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.