No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.
Thomas Carlyle
Men hate more steadily than they love; and if I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
Samuel Johnson
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I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.
Abraham Lincoln
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A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.
Henry David Thoreau
If there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it.
Jane Austen
A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.
That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
Aldous Huxley
A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Fate is not in man but around him.
Albert Camus
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
Bertrand Russell
So, in my relationships with men, I've always sought suffering, conflict, and despair.
Paulo Coelho
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
George Bernard Shaw
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
Leo Tolstoy
As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King Jr.
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! and yet, to me, wh
William Shakespeare
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.
Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen.
Cassandra Clare
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.
It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.
Orson Scott Card
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
We cannot endure being despised, or not being esteemed by any soul; and all the happiness of men consists in this esteem.
Blaise Pascal
Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.
Albert Einstein
Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison.
No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell
A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Aristotle
It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.
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