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Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.
I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.
...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.
You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.
The warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul.
All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.
The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.
If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.
I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.
A bit ridiculous, but true. The moral of this story is to separate men and women when analyzing number of sexual organs.
I love artists who have spirituality. Jonathan Coulton is the man, I love his melodies and lyrics. Chap-hop is the bomb!
Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.
If a man ain't nothin' else, then he's an artist. It's the only thing he can claim to be that nobody can prove he ain't.
Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.
God seems to throw Himself on the side of the man who knows exactly what he wants, if he is determined to get JUST THAT!
Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.
If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.
Right now in my career, it's like I'm having more fun than I've ever had, so it's kind of like, 'Man, I can't stop now.'
I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.
All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test... better. Its a negotiation tool.
It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.
Thou hast no life to lose, because thou hast given it already to Christ, nor can man take away that without God's leave.
My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
And I told you, I'm not going to pursue another man's girlfriend. You want to talk honor. There it is in its purest form
Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do, in such a case if it were not for God?
I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
In the quest to be a man, you start to learn you need your family. If it wasn't for them, I'd be way closer to insanity.
Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.
The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.
In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?
What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.
No man taketh away sins (which the law, though holy, just and good, could not take away), but He in whom there is no sin.
What ever happened to freak shows? Back in the twenties when elephant man was born at least he had a job waiting for him.
I feel the most alive when I'm singing. I also get to be the mail man for some of the most beautiful lyrics ever written.
Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?
Would there be any truth in saying that psychology was created by the sophists to sow distrust between man and his world?
A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.
As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.
My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking.
I would dearly love to take up the brush again, but I realize that I am an old man and that I cannot set the world afire.
A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane
In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.