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It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.
Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.
All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.
Gordie: Do you think I'm weird? Chris: Definitely. Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird? Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird
At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."
...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.
I think we have a very skewed idea of what sex is nowadays. TV, video games and the Internet are set up to raise men to be predators.
We loved one another, man. I mean all those stories about the rift ... there was no question of a rift between Charlie Parker and me.
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.
Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.
The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.
There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his profit on a matter of no profit.
Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.
If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are.
I think a man can have two, maybe three, affairs while he is married. But three is the absolute maximum. After that, you're cheating.
There are a lot of wannabe men in Hollywood. But when you have that Hollywood mentality, there aren't a lot of real, grounded people.
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.
Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.
Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and in that man I will show you one who will never be admitted into heaven.
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
I knew Lee Harvey Oswald, and I knew Jack Kennedy. The odds against that-one person knowing all four of those men-must be astounding.
A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs.
Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.
Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions
So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.
Christianity is a power religion. Christ has the power to re-create men from the inside out, as every man who has ever met Him knows.
Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see
One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.
I hate all the old pictures of me before 2010 - and they are always the first ones to come up. That's why I don't Google myself, man.
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'
A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.
We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it?
If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.
There are many things given to us in this life for the wrong reasons. What we do with such blessings, that is the true test of a man.
If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.
Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law.
Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.
I often refer to myself as a gay man and all my friends are gay and I would like nothing more than for them to be able to be married.
Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru's words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.
Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love.
And for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you.