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Researchers in England say tall men are more likely to have more children than short men. Here in America we call that the NBA theory.
So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.
The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.
Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.
If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.
Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning.
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.
For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also.
I love it if a man makes an effort to get to know my parents and sisters. Getting to know the people who matter to me goes a long way.
What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.
'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.
Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess
If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.
Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I believe when a woman enters a room, men should stand up - and gay men should stand up at least halfway.
In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.
When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.
I taught myself to name my name, To bark back, loosen love and crying; To ease my woman so she came, To ease an old man who was dying.
Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.
every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.
It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.
There is always something to be happy about if we look for it: ‘Two men looked through prison bars, The one saw mud, the other stars.'
Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.
Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?
The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.
There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.
Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.
There is no yawning gulf between man and God. Through his aspiration and meditation, Man can become conscious of his oneness with God.
Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.
Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?
Man is that guy ripped. I mean, I've got the washboard stomach, too. It's just that mine has about two months of laundry on top of it.
Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the Man.
Yes, I'm a nice man and I enjoy babies. I'm a sensitive guy. I held a baby the other day and it was the first time either of us cried.
When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
He cast his eyes upon her and the trouble soon began, cause Leroy Brown learned a lesson about messing with the wife of a jealous man.
When he can render no further aid, the physician alone can mourn as a man with his incurable patient. This is the physician's sad lot.
But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.
You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers.
He's probably the world's most beautiful looking man, yet he doesn't think he's that gorgeous. And to me, he's just smelly, farty Leo.
An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.