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To any man who has slaved to acquire skill in his art, it is most irritating to have his ability referred to as a “gift.”
No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.
In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.
Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason
Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.
From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers
Before marriage, when a woman speaks to a man in an undertone, he calls it "cooing"; after marriage, he calls it nagging.
In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.
For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.
Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.
All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.
The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.
Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.
When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.
How did it come to be that you think men and women are the same? Well, there's a simple answer to the question: Feminism.
The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.
I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.
Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.
It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or disregard.
The beckoning Hands Of God's hopeful Smile Will, without fail, one day greet The fruitful cries Of man's prayerful heart.
It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.
A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities.
Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.
Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.
I think I'm a happy man, and I'm a blessed man. I have been able to adjust to any situation, whatever it was, in my life.
Make men work together, show them that beyond their differences and geographical boundaries there lies a common interest.
Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.
I do not need a man. I am devoted to masturbation. I think it's probably one of the most pleasurable experiences in life.
Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing. ?
To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.
American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.
Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.
Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.
The perfect world for me is to find some sort of inner peace. I believe that a man that walks with God can walk anywhere.
Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.
Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?
The true face of the unions is not now a man in a hard hat as much as it is a woman in a classroom or in cleaning smocks.
We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.
Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
[I]t is tragic that the forces for destruction that we unleashed are stronger than man's present ability to control them.
I have noticed this, that when a man is full of the Holy Ghost he is the very last man to be complaining of other people.
You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.