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It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.
I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men.
I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.
Most men of business think "Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to go on still.
It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.
It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.
Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.
Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.
The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.
I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.
. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .
So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.
Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.
Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.
What are you afraid of? You are an immortal being. You are neither a man nor a woman, as you may think, but a soul - joyous, eternal.
To be a survivor as an African American man - maybe any man - you have to be pretty tough. Or at least that's what we all understand.
The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell—in the clearness of the instructions they receive.
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.
The solution to this problem [welfare-statism] must take a positive form: the restoration of a faith in what free men can accomplish.
When I said I was born a feminist, I was born thinking woman are equal to men, if not stronger than men. That's the way I always was.
A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.
Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man's ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems.
The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.
I'm an out and out basic man and AC/DC are one of the best rock'n'roll bands in the world, doing things just to the basics, you know.
Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.
in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.
If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.
In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever.
In our society, it's been the men who've handled most of the finances, and the women who've stood by and watched men botch things up.
The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true Man, the Lord of Majesty.
I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.
Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.
I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn’t do at all.
God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth.
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.