Man Quotes
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There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
H. L. Mencken
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
Rafe Spall
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Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
L. Neil Smith
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
Baruch Spinoza
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey.
Venerable Bede
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
Tallulah Bankhead
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
Kate Baldwin
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It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
Naguib Mahfouz
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
Lao Tzu
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The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
Aristotle
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Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.
Felix Dennis
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Western man is schizophrenic.
J. B. Priestley
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
Karel Capek
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates
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Desire is the very essence of man.
Baruch Spinoza
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I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
Oliver Platt
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It’s easier to look sexy when you’re thinking of one man in particular.
Marilyn Monroe
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
W. H. Auden
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It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.
Rafe Spall
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We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.
Oskar Schindler
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl Sandburg
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
Pat Paulsen