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Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.
To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
If you’re constantly open to inspiration, it will come to you. The worst thing a man can do is pressure himself into an idea.
For when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through places without water, seeking rest; and not finding. . .
The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.
The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.
Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean.
A woman who doesn't care what men think of her - ah, this is dangerous. This is the worst conceivable insult to the male ego.
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
A thirst for the infinite is indelibly present in human beings. Man was created to have a relationship with God; we need him.
It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.
If a man is not aware of the existence of the moon, what can the moon do for him except continue sending its lights upon him?
What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.
The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself.
No, I'm not the prototypical leadoff man. I'm not the prototypical anything. I just try to be the prototypical Jimmy Rollins.
. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.
I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.
The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.
Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited to his mind.
I come from a very poor family, with sisters. I never really knew my father, so I miss this strong image of a man in my life.
The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.
The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.
A generation ago there were a thousand men to every opportunity, while today there are a thousand opportunities to every man.
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.
The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.
The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best that he possesses.
And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn!
She says I am not fair, that I lack manners; She calls me proud, and that she could not love me, Were man as rare as Phoenix.
A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.
Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men.
Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole.
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
If you want to sell the most records, duet with me. If you need someone to come in and bless your record sales, I'm your man.
Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.
To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.
He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.
Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
Men and women really do want the same things. We just need each other to bring it out. That's really the truth of the matter.
I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.
Oh! how happy the man of means who uses his wealth and his life for the greater glory of God, from whom he has received them!
If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.
Conformation ... but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere - in men, in horses, and in women.
I don’t know if it is all (man’s fault) but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature.
Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.
I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.