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The inauspiciousness of the owl is nothing but the inauspiciousness of the man who thinks that owl is inauspicious!
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.
By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies.
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
I can think of no greater God-given responsibility we have than that of extending a helping hand to our fellow man.
The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.
What a childhood I had. Once on my birthday my ol' man gave me a bat. The first day I played with it, it flew away.
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.
Anytime you go upside a man's head - or a woman - then they have a tendency to blink they eyes. Or close they eyes.
Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident.
Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.
The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.
Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.
The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility
It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love.
The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
There is not a man in power at our Bethlehem steel works today who did not begin at the bottom and work his way up.
It is a very high stage in the path of love when man really learns to love another with a love that asks no return.
I like women who can throw a ball and laugh loud and have some spine, and I like men who don't mind cooking dinner.
At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.
May he die with no joy at his end, The man who won't be troubled To unlock the keys of his heart and make a friend.
By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.
And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.
But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.
it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.
The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.
Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.
He had threatened my parents. I had to remember that. Still, it was really hard to stay mad at a wounded naked man.
The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.
Hold yourself on your own. A man's job in a romantic dynamic is not to be your butler, bank account or your father.
A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.
There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.
Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.
In Washington, a man gets up to speak and doesn't say a thing, and the other men disagree with him for three hours.
Arsenal are the most beautiful club in England. At Man City and Chelsea, they will never have that class and style.
To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.
But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.