Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
He taught them that the purpose of a man is to make his life holy--every aspect of his life: eating, drinking praying,… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Compared with this simple, fibrous life, our civilized history appears the chronicle of debility, of fashion, and the arts of luxury. But… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I love and honour [Paulus Aemilius, in Plutarch's Lives], for his fondness for his children, which instead of blushing at, he avows… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Someone killed my Mother and my Father and my Sister?" "Yes, someone did." "A Man?" "A Man." "Which means," said Bod, "you're… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We have been counseled to "seek . . . out of the best books words of wisdom." It is pointed out in… — Henry D. Taylor Copy Share Image
There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Prodded by the needs of the Union cause, the Republican Party created a strong national government that educated young men and gave… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I think the idea that women have all this wonderful emotion is a myth, as well as the fact that men do… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
I don't quite recollect how many tumblers of whiskey toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Mythographer was suggested by the man who made my website, actually. I do write a lot about myth and I do feel… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In actual fact the pacifistic-humane idea is perfectly all right perhaps when the highest type of man has previously conquered and subjected… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Instead of complaining at his lot, a contented man is thankful that his condition and circumstances are no worse than they are.… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel… — Henry James Sr Copy Share Image
Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Every forward step achieved by man has been due to the adventurous attitude. This attitude inspires dissatisfaction with the world as it… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
The wildest dreams of wild men, even, are not the less true, though they may not recommend themselves to the sense which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the earlier days of history, kings and leaders went to the battlefield with their men; but today, those who determine that… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
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A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Someone told me once that blues is like whiskey. They keep whiskey in the barrel for so many years, and then they… — Buddy Guy Copy Share Image
The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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As a man - no longer a teenager that can play those really young roles, but as a man - I think… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
At the same time that she [nature] solicits him [man] to follow her not only into her open walks, but likewise to… — Henry Kett Copy Share Image
With every rising of the sun Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays—… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
We are now enjoying the liberation that comes with not having to be organization men and women, and that's fabulous. But there… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
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