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If a man has any brains at all, let him hold on to his calling, and, in the grand sweep of things, his turn will come at last.
Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.
A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.
No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.
A man who is right by your side through everything makes you happy. But he can leave your side to make dinner once in a while!
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.
You cannot have man legislating and playing God in Parliament, and at the same time believe that Allah is the only legislator.
And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man.
The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society.
Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty Jones
You can really learn from Donahue. I didn't know you could be a woman in a man's body. You go out and you can't parallel park.
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again - Echo still the joyful sound "Peace on earth, good-will to men!"
The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.
If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.
Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.
Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit
I wasn't sure exactly how prostitutes determined price, but if men bought hookers by the pound, these two would be doing okay.
Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.
How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.
We don't know Religion's death date but we know its birthday: The very night man experienced his first great fear of anything!
Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.
To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.
An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.
In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in.
There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.
It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.
Man is homo religiosus, by 'nature' religious: as much as he needs food to eat or air to breathe, he needs a faith for living.
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man's field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.
I think if a girl who liked 'Party Down' found out that her boyfriend liked 'Two and a Half Men,' she would break up with him.
Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?
I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.
Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.
Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but... I promise you, the right man won't care.
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.
No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It wears on a man's confidence.
There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.