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My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.
My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant.
The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.
Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.
There were two dawns that morning. One the orderly sunrise of God, followed by man's fireball at the base of that rocket.
It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'
When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'
Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.
Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.
Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language
We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.
Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.
I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.
I have a lot of male friends that I go the cinema with and movie and shopping. A lot of men friends I know love shopping.
If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind, and if a drowned man can awaken, then I believe a broken man can heal.
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
I got tiger blood, man. My brain fires in a way that is - I don't know, maybe not from this particular terrestrial realm.
How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America, that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.
Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.
I like the fact that Hogan's shoes all have this sporty sole that is great even for an older man with a bad back like me.
I believe that men are here to grow themselves into the best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.
Not until man is willing to recognize his animal nature - in the good sense of the word - will he create genuine culture.
If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.
To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.
Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.
I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head.
Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.
If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man.
Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.
I love Nashville. I've been here so many times... oh man, I would stay here for a year if I could. It's just so much fun.
Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
That gut-wrenching feeling of defeat I can still feel today. Losing and God are the two things that I fear. I fear no man
The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.
Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal.
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
Firth - all dodgy 'tache and frantic eyebrows - has got the sexual allure of a man who runs a swingers' club in Surbiton.
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.