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I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.
The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
If every man is supposed to think of sex once every nine minutes, what on earth does he think of in the other eight?
In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man
There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself.
A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.
Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day.
A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man
In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.
To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.
A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.
I tend to work best as a one-man Task Force, including even the roles of messenger, coffee maker and office cleaner.
I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.
It is so difficult to mix with artists! You must choose business men to talk to, because artists only talk of money.
Highest Providence often works a wonderful miracle: that of having evil men make others who are evil to become good.
Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said
As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.
A man's house is his stage. Others walk on to play their bit parts. Now and again a soliloquy, a birth, an adultery.
It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.
Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.
We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.
Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.
Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.
I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.
If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.
The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.
If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.
The militia is our ultimate safety. We can have no security without it. The great object is that every man be armed.
In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.
I think if we open ourselves to all different kinds of men and all groups, we find a lot more opportunities to love.
France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls of men.
A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.
Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.
Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.
When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.
Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.
I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
Lovers, like dying men, may well At first disorder'd be, Since none alive can truly tell What Fortune they must see.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Christ wants to lead men by their love, their personal love to Him, and the confidence of His personal love to them.
It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before science came.