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Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends … if you [have] five, you’re a rich man….
If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.
There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain.
We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.
Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
When I turned 16, I thought I was a man. I needed the money. When you don't have it, crazy thoughts go through your mind.
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
A living man is blind and drinks his drop. What matter if the ditches are impure? What matter if I live it all once more?
I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back.
Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase 'a self-made man' is a myth all along the way we need support.
Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.
Love is a flame to burn out human wills, Love is a flame to set the will on fire, Love is a flame to cheat men into mire.
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
A free horse where there is no man on its saddle always looks more beautiful than a slave horse with a man on its saddle!
Actually no person owns anything. All belongs to God, but while man is on earth he has the God-given right of possession.
The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.
Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.
Bowie has an unusual face. He's neither a man nor a woman. There's this aura of fantasy that surrounds him. He has flair.
No man can feel himself alone The while he bravely stands Between the best friends ever known His two good, honest hands.
I can show you who's the man Let me show you with my hands I just want you close to me I'll get you wet Just wait and see
This Marxian sentence, repeated to the point of boredom, is misinterpreted. In reality [Karl] Marx was a "religious" man.
What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?
As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.
There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.
Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men... they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.
The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.
It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside out.
Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.
The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation.
Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?
Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.
God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.
Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.
Oh, if only you knew yourselves! You are souls; you are Gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it is when I call you man.
In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.
The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.
Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.
Some people have an inner child that speaks to them. I have an inner old man who just yells random [stuff] at me all day.
The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
Recognize that both men and women might be more comfortable opening up to a woman than a man. Use that to your advantage.
Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.
For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.