Man Quotes
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Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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For me as a man, philosophically, when you talk about honor and integrity, thats the way I want to live my life. It moved me.
Tom Cruise
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The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.
Anthony Trollope
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Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.
Will Durant
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No man can avoid being born average, but no man has to stay average.
Satchel Paige
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.
Jonathan Swift
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So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.
William Shakespeare
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The man who has a girl in every port is not a sailor but a wholesaler.
Evan Esar
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It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.
Gertrude Atherton
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The elements were "seeking" each other in rage and confusion, and in the fury of the conflict boastful man was utterly humiliated, sucked down, drowned.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Never give up your voice for a man, you fucking guppy.
Catherynne M. Valente
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No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.
Epictetus
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The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success.
Norman Vincent Peale
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It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.
Thomas Aquinas
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My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
George Bernard Shaw
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Man is a greater thing than you have thought him.
Edith Hahn Beer
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When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.
Thomas Aquinas
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When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.
James Boswell
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I thought of what my mom had said. "You talk like a man." It was easier to talk like a man than to be one.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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The most important thing in a man is not what he knows, but what he is.
Narciso Yepes
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The truth is that man is one individual with two aspects, just like one line with two ends. If you look at the ends, it is two. If you look at the line, it is one. One end of the line is limited, the other end of the line is unlimited. One end is man, the other end is God.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Man is a tool-using animal.
Thomas Carlyle
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Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.
Norm MacDonald
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A man is not a different person just because he becomes aware. Oh I know it must seem like metamorphosis when the eyes of a blind man are opened, but he's the same man. We grow, mercifully, and growth is just awareness of more and more.
Elizabeth Goudge