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Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'
Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth
I think a lot of women, in the way that they might attach emotion to sex, attach emotion to food, in a different way than men.
Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please.
If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.
Where I'm from, there's two things you don't mess with. You don't mess with a man's woman, or his hat DON'T TOUCH A MAN'S HAT!
Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.
Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?
No one can know the infinite importance of a tiny drop of water better than a thirsty bird or a little ant or a man of desert!
A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.
There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.
Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.
Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.
The Bible warns us clearly that we must not attack men of God no matter how sinful they may have become or wicked in our eyes.
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.
To the worldy man Karma is a stern Nemesis, to the spiritual man Karma unfolds itself in harmony with his highest aspirations.
Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.
But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
For me as a man, philosophically, when you talk about honor and integrity, thatÂ’s the way I want to live my life. It moved me.
Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.
Nothing annoys a man as to hear a woman promising to love him "forever" when he merely wanted her to love him for a few weeks.
It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.
When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.
A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law
When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as a friend Came knocking all day at my door.
He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all. Our forefathers opened the Bible to all.
Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.
And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.
The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.
If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.
Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.
Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures are not yours.
I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable.
It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.
What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.
I am a man of peace, God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.
Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.
There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.
The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.