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To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.
Man is not a ship in harbour; Earth is not a ship in harbour; even Universe is not a ship in harbour! No safe harbour for anything exists!
Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.
Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men!
I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it
He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.
A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him
The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.
The Argentine tango is very special to me because it's full of sensuality. The chemistry between the man and woman is absolutely stunning.
Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.
Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.
The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.
A young man should ask himself not if it is his duty to go to the heathen, but if he may dare stay at home. The command is so plain: “Go.”
As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.
To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.
A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men.
All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!
To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.
I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I call myself a humorist.
Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in religion.
When a man wants to relax, he will slob out and really relax. Or he will pursue a hobby - anything from building models to watching sport.
Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.
The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.
Why do you wear a mask and hood?" I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.
There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in a port! The same is valid for the man!
How I wish that more men who claim to be evangelical really believed the Word of God--that it IS the Word of God, that it is God speaking.
It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.
Yale men do not like to be told anything by people who didn't go to Yale. The closest I came to Yale was once I had one of their padlocks.
The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.
Love differs from all the other contagious diseases: the last time a man is exposed to it, he takes it most readily, and has it the worst!
Man seeks answers from afar Man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets but has not even gone into the silence of his being
Nothing from outside can stop a man from enjoying lasting peace and permanent joy in life, for it is the essential nature of his own soul.
I'm 5 foot 7, and I've got pasty white skin. I don't think I'm ugly, don't get me wrong, but I'm not your classic lead man, Brad Pitt guy.
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts
When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.
A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.
I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]
The difference between men and women is that women seek power in order to address issues, while men address issues in order to seek power.
My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death.
Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.
When a woman veils her body in modest clothing, she is not hiding herself from men. On the contrary, she is revealing her dignity to them.
Sometimes a lot of us men think we are doing everything for the woman we love, but there is an aspect of a woman a man doesn't understand.
For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.