Man Quotes
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Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels.
Saul Bellow
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Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good.
Baruch Spinoza
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Man, I tell you, this is worth waiting 16 years for!
Deke Slayton
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If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.
Edgar S. Brightman
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So you don’t love him. Why would you look for love with a man? How could a man ever understand you?
Catherynne M. Valente
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Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
Confucius
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I think like a man but have the emotions of a woman, and that's really dangerous.
Suzi Quatro
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God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.
Victor Hugo
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From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Thomas A. Edison
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Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.
Lord Byron
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Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.
Michelangelo
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Why do the sacraments exist? They are a means of healing. The sacraments are not a means of discipline, but a help for man on his life’s journey and in the weak moments of his life.
Carlo Maria Martini
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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
Ivan Turgenev
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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.
George Bernard Shaw
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The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
Sophocles
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I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.
George Bernard Shaw
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Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I am the man, I suffered, I was there.
Walt Whitman
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Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.
Gautama Buddha
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He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.
Jane Austen
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If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
Honore de Balzac