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Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.
Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.
Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.
Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.
If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.
Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.
A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.
Troublous times, departures from the faith, evil men waxing worse and worse, love waxing cold, are things distinctly predicted.
Don't protest outside of a rich man's house in the daytime, you'll just scare the maid, and that's Arnold Schwarzenegger's job.
The thing that impressed everyone when he same on the scene as a 17 year old was he already spoke like a man. (on Michael Owen)
I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
Every breath taken in by the man Who loves, and the woman who loves, Goes to fill the water tank Where the spirit horses drink.
... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.
For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.
Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny
My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.
If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.
Checkers taught me that a King is a man with another man on top of him. But life taught me that that's actually called a Queen.
It's like getting the Williams sisters to play (tennis) against a man, and they're far better athletes than she (Sorenstam) is.
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?
If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.
I have since written what no tide Shall ever wash away, what men Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide And find Ianthe's name agen.
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.
By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.
The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.
The masters are men like us who have evolved ahead of us and come to the end of the evolution as a human being on planet earth.
War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.
The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace
If God is the master of the universe, then what are we? The slaves of the universe? If so, let each man become proud Spartacus!
When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.
There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture.
Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
We learn to trust man when he does what we expect him to do; we learn to trust God when He doesn't do what we expect Him to do.
When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in--woe be to truth!
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.
Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening.
Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.
Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.
That man said he’d take your head too.” “Well, as to that,” Yoren said, “if he can get it off my shoulders, he’s welcome to it.