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In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.
Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness.
Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.
Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing.
The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.
Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.
Having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men.
Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.
The eternal Son of God became the sinless son of Man that the sinful sons of men might become the beloved sons of God.
Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.
The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.
All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man.
What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.
To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.
The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.
That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.
The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.
You're a dead man, Arratay," Jerrel said through clenched teeth. Halt smiled. "That's been said before. Yet here I am.
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.
How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same time?
Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.
People make first judgments about people based on their appearance. There's an old saying, "The clothes make the man.".
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?
You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.
In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.
Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.
Imagine that you're a gay man and you're spending all your time with people who believe you are possessed by the devil.
The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.
A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.
A man's wealth can...also be measured by what he doesn't have and doesn't want. When he wants little, he is a rich man.
To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.
Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!
How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.
If a person lacks self- acceptance, he can't live with himself; if he lacks self-criticism, others can't live with him.
When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.
Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.
Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.
Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.