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We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- Erica Jong
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Count your blessings. Once you realize
how valuable you are and how much you have going for you,
the smiles will return, the sun will break out,
the music will play, and you will finally
be able to move forward the life that God intended
for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
- Og Mandino
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You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep
because reality is finally better than your dreams.
- Dr. Seuss
Though force can protect in emergency,
only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation
can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
And finally I twist my heart round again,
so that the bad is on the outside
and the good is on the inside,
and keep on trying to find a way of becoming
what I would so like to be, and could be,
if there weren't any other people living in the world.
- Anne Frank
There are four stages in a marriage.
First there's the affair,
then the marriage,
then children
and finally the fourth stage,
without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
- Norman Mailer
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman
in the midst of this world,
where each person is clinging to his piece of debris?
What's the proper salutation between people
as they pass each other in this flood?
- The Buddha
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
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