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Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.
Government does not have magic powers. In fact, the opposite is true; it is the least effective agency invented by man.
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death.
For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.
It's an absolute myth that early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Of course it doesn't.
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
Man is a thief, an impudent thief! He steals honey from bees, eggs from chickens, milk from cows and life from the God!
A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.
In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.
Men who reach decisions promptly usually have the capacity to move with definiteness of purpose in other circumstances.
It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.
You had lots of visitors, but they were all quiet." "Oh real funny. Tease the blind man." ~Trella to Logan, pg. 114-115
Up until age 40, most men are just not as mature as women. So, it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit.
What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!
All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.
God knows I wanted love... but the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses... I chose the dresses
A man who has his initials on his pyjamas must be uncertain of himself. Surely you should know who you are at bed time.
For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.
I have been recognized from Mad Men, and it’s so cool when that happens because I am so proud to be a part of the show.
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.
The books of men have their day and grow obsolete. God's word is like Himself, the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.
Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.
I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other.
A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
My father wasn't much for show business. He was an insurance man - very well-liked, very warm. He had a lot of friends.
It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.
I wanted to play in the NBA, I wanted to play sports, I wanted to do all this. And I have. I think I am becoming a man.
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
It is better to enter into life maimed but lovely in God’s sight than to appear lovely to man’s eyes but lame to God’s.
The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3
For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.
Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.
Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!
The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.
Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
Man is a food-dependent creature. If you don't feed him, he will die. If you feed him improperly, part of him will die.
He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.