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Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.
One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.
The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.
There is a fatality about unkept good resolutions. They are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
Man, at his best, remains a sort of one-lunged animal, never completely rounded and perfect, as a cockroach, say, is perfect.
Not only commission makes a sin. A man is guilty of all those sins he hateth not. If I cannot avoid all, yet I will hate all.
No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.
Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice.
Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.
That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly revolting.
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.
A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.
We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.
It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men.
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious. [Lat., Cui homini dii propitii sunt aliquid objiciunt lucri.]
When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?.
Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.
The one who actually succeeds in making himself believe that he is having a good time is the man of splendid physical health.
I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly.
Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.
Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
If you really believe in the brotherhood of man, and you want to come into its fold, you've got to let everyone else in, too.
Men and people will fight you down when you see the light. Let me tell you if you are not wrong than everything is all right.
I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
Do not forget that a traitor within our ranks, known to us, can do more harm to the enemy than a loyal man can do good to us.
I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight could save him.
That's the way girls are isn't it? They swear eternal friendship, and then as soon as a man's in the case it's all forgotten.
The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.
Let me have men about me that are fat... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
God, give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst!
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.
Medicine is the study of disease and what causes man to die. Chiropractic is the study of health and what causes man to live.
Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.
I believe what I write to be the truth...every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about.
There never has been a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than Robinson.
The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.
As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.
We know that more than seventy to eighty percent of women masturbate, and ninety percent of men masturbate, and the rest lie.
But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.
Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom.
Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.
We must imagine our lives well. We must engage our conscience. Conscience is the voice of God in the nature and heart of man.
The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily.