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It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct — if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.
A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her.
There are three kinds of men: those who are preceded by their shadow, those who are pursued by it, and those who have never seen the sun.
Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.
The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.
Every woman must admit, and every man with as much sense as a woman, that it's very hard to make a home for any man if he's always in it.
The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning.
Be Grateful to the Man you help, think of Him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men?
You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.
Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.
Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.
Caddies are a breed of their own. If you shoot 66, they say, "Man, we shot 66!" But go out and shoot 77, and they say "Hell, he shot 77!"
For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult.
The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.
For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.
But as for me: I must ask the wounded man where he is hurt, because I cannot become the wounded man. The only wounded man I can be is me.
In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.
English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.
Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant.
The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.
You know, a man's life is the most precious thing in the world, isn't it? So isn't it odd that a man will insure everything but his life?
It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the hand as a cow with a musket.
The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.
If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.
It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.
Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.
It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.
How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.
Certainly I have no faith in Jehovah, although I think it quite likely that Jesus Christ, as a preacher and a wise man, did indeed exist.
Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again.
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
For a water drop, the most beautiful house is a leaf; and for a man: The goodness! Let the goodness be your home you permanently live in!
Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.
Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.
I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.
Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.
You can't take no Chinese man and give him no Puerto Rican woman and talking like they're in love and emotionally in love and physically.
Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.
Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.
One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war is that each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die.
For Christ plays in ten thousand places,/ Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his/ To the Father through the features of men’s faces.
Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them.
Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.
Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!
When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.
So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.