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What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.'
One of my assistants, a British man, says I should find a platform for [cosmetic industry]. Meanwhile I wear make-up.
It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.
Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?.
A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!
As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.
Women are at little trouble to express what they do not feel; but men are still at less to express what they do feel.
In a stupid society, a clever man can come into the power; but in a clever society no stupid can come into the power!
In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.
There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.
I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.
A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel.
As he closed the door he said over his shoulder, "Because you're a good lass." A heavy sigh. "And I'm no' a good man.
Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.
Give a man love, and he will be happy for a time. Teach a man how to love, and he will have joy through all eternity.
The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.
A man's character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall.
When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.
Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.
Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.
God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.
Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.
Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.
We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.
Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!
One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.
Аll I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man. What I stand for speaks for itself...they don't understand.
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance.
Falling in love doesn't always lead to heartbreak, honey. With the right man, it can be a one-way ticket to paradise.
They biggest man with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest man with the smallest mind-think big anyway.
Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
Though with Bridget Jones's Baby: the Diaries, I'd like to make it clear that I did not ever get pregnant by two men.
When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.
One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.
I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job.
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.