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A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.
The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
Dodge City is one town where the average bad man of the West not only finds his equal, but finds himself badly handicapped.
Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.
Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]
Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
The greatest puzzle in the world, young man, the greatest challenge a man can face, a solving the riddle of a women's heart.
Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.
Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.
Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.
Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.
I used to be an angry man myself. I’m a recovering assaholic so I could recognize that in Steve. (quoting Jean-Louis Gassée)
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?
I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now.
Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.
A poor man celebrates the New Year once a year. A rich man celebrates each day. But the richest man celebrates every moment.
We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
It is absurd to go away from the world while searching the Truth because it is in the world and inside the man here and now.
To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.
I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
... the absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man's regeneration. In raising her he will elevate himself.
If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.
[On Philadelphia society:] The parties remind me of the Gay Nineties -- the men are gay and the women are in their nineties.
I've worked with just as many talented women as I have talented men, and I feel fortunate enough to have that great balance.
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.
His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.
Between extremities Man runs his course; A brand, or flaming breath, Comes to destroy All those antinomies Of day and night.
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.
A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.
This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.
Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.
There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity.
Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.
I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.
Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.
Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!
God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all.
Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.
It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization.
I know what I say; I understand my mission and business. God Almighty is my shield; and what can man do if God is my friend?
For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.
The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice/any choice will be the right one.
Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.