Man Quotes
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The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.
Rumi
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Lord God, I thank Thee that Thou hast been pleased to make me a poor and indigent man upon earth. I have neither house nor land nor money, to leave behind me. Thou hast given me wife and children, whom I now restore to Thee. Lord, nourish, teach, and preserve them as Thou hast me.
Martin Luther
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Which do you think is the more impossible dream: the perfect man or the perfect handbag?
Nicole Hollander
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
William Faulkner
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Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.
Heraclitus
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If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.
George III
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In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Don't shave, don't shower, don't care. Be really stinky and wear the same clothes every day. I think what makes a man sexy is not being self-aware. That’s what's really cute to me.
Gwen Stefani No Doubt
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I don't look like a leading man, whatever they look like. It's changing a little.
James Cromwell
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It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.
George Eliot
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Man can't do without God. Just like you're thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can't go without God.
Bob Marley
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There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Oh yeah In France a skinny man Died of a big disease with a little name By chance his girlfriend came across a needle And soon she did the same At home there are seventeen-year-old boys And their idea of fun Is being in a gang called The Disciples High on crack, totin' a machine gun.
Prince
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Every man makes a god of his own desire.
Virgil
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To the man who is afraid everything rustles.
Sophocles
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A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.
George Bernard Shaw
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He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.
Nicholas Sparks
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
Tacitus
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I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
Thomas A. Edison
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
Honore de Balzac
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In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.
Edgar Allan Poe
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A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him either.
Annie Oakley
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A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
Homer