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Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.
He couldn't even find the will to yell at her now. A real man didn't yell at those who weren't exactly sane themselves, he told himself.
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.
If you chose to be with an abusive man, a powerful, abusive man, it reflects something about who you are and what you want for yourself.
I just love dressing up in everything a man is supposed not to be, in all that vulnerability, sweetness, preciousness and impracticality.
If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creature s let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself.
A man with money to pay for a meal can talk about hunger without demeaning himself. ... But for a man with no money hunger is a disgrace.
The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia leaves.
A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.
I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible
I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.
Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'
I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.
Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.
And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen.
The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.
The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time; but to assure for ever, the way of his future desires.
Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my emotions: I am insane.
A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.
It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?
I feel I've learned a lot about [experience of giving birth], and I think it's amazing. Men and women who are ob-gyns are pretty amazing.
A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases
It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.
God's image is the married couple, a man and women, together. Not just the man. Not just the woman. No, both of them. That's God's image.
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.
Man is by nature a lover. Only he has yet to discover the real thing to love. This quest awakens him to the fulfillment of his real Self.
I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.
Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein; Christ-like is it for sin to grieve, God-like is it all sin to leave.
For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.
Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.
Your approval before God is woven into the life and sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, not what other men and women think about you.
To follow the path that others have laid before you is a reasonable course of action; therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men.
When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.
I don’t love just men. I love people. It’s not about a gender. It’s just about the spirit that exudes from that other person you’re with.
The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.
Commuter - one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife; A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides back to shave again.
It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.
The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.
The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.
The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.
If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I am, I am", so shall you be.
It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful.
The truly religious man does everything as if everything depends on himself, and then leaves everything as if everything depended on God.
Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it.
I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.