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- A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
- The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.
- Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are the most tolerable…
- If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.
- It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.
- The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets…
- The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it.…
- Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.... A man full of faith is simply one who has…
- The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of love. He is…
- The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit…
- A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.
- The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt…
- A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
- Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
- The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
- The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.
- The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
- A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something…
- I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who…
- There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start…
- It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the great majority of…
- A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something…
- It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life…
- No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.
- The more a man dreams, the less he believes.
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