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Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.
The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
I'm going to teach you about men. Distances are like men. Never grab the first one you see; it's never the best one, more will come along.
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.
When a man is attacked in print, it's usually for saying what he says; when a woman is attacked in print, it's often for being who she is.
A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.
It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down before a higher god.
It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves.
The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing.
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.
I ask you, if a mad man came in and abducted your child and I said to you I can bring your child homedoes it matter how I bring them home?
I do think my old fella wasn't much of a... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man.
Having it all means having the same work and family choices that men do. It doesn't mean having everything that you want. No one has that.
Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.
I don't fall into the physical manifestation of a man of letters. So I guess people assume the scripts are delivered to me under the door.
The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.
Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.
Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!
A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
I look at the Christian Bale movies, the Batman films, and that shows you that superhero movies don't just have to be about men in tights.
If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.
The only difference between a rich man and a poor man, is that the poor man suffers uncomfortably, while the rich man suffers comfortably.
Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.
Say, heavenly pow'rs, where shall we find such love? Which of ye will be mortal to redeem Man's mortal crime, and just th' unjust to save.
I feel like when I reach my 500-million-dollar goal, then no other woman in rap will ever feel like they can't do what these men have done
The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.
My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.
Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
Because of my personal history, my professional skills and my business achievements, I am a man nobody can expect to compare himself with.
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.
Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.
You can do anything in the world if you say "Hey man, don't blame me, the devil made me do it. It's an easy way to escape responsibility."
Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?
The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion.
Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.
It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.
Every kid I knew had a father with a little stash of men's magazines which the father thought was secret and which the kid knew all about.
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.
The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.
You are right that a man needs light like he needs bread, but a man needs a little darkness, too, if only so that he can sleep, and dream.
Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.