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A real Centaurpart man, part horse's ass. A rough appraisal, but curiously true.
He had a fear of the dead, and of all inanimate things, rising up around himto claim him; it isthe fearof thepre- eminently solitary child and solitary man.
Sir Roger told them, with the air of a man who would not give his judgement rashly, that much might be said on both sides.
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.
Girlsareso queer youneverknow whattheymean.They say no when they mean yes, and drive a man out of his wits just for the fun of it.
The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And ordered their estate.
For the normal business of living man is most at ease on the ground.
The phenomenon of architecture is a development of the phenomenon of man.
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; Girls aren't like that. See Byron181:73.
Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in. See also Connolly 233:82.
I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.
You're sitting in a room with male writers and you say something and it's ignored.You say it again and it's ignored.Then a manwill say it and everyonegoes'That's brilliant'.
Liquide constet inter virum et uxorem amorem sibi locum vindicare non posse. It is clearly certain that between man and wife love can claim no place.
It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Fullones ululamque cano, non arma virumque. Of fullers and their wailing, I sing, not of arms and the man. 18
Thegloryof God isman, and thegloryof manishisdress.
Feoh byth frofur fira gehwylcum Sceal theah manna gehwylc miclun hyt d×lan. Money is a comfort to each man, But everyone should nevertheless give it away freely.
Ear byth egle eorla gehwylcun. The grave isghastly to every man.
Ay wolde man of happe more hente Then moghte by ryght upon hem cleven. Man always desires to seize more of happiness, Than rightfully belongs to him.
I wyll that my son manhede take For reson wyll that there be thre A man, a madyn, and a tre. Man for man, tre for tre, Madyn for madyn; thus shall it be.
Would you buy a used car from this man?
He who has not travelled does not know the value of a man.
The President is a walking dead man. He just doesn't know it yet.
Solus homo delectatur in ipsa pulchritudine sensibilium secundum seipsam. Only man delights in the beauty of sense objects for their own sake.
I am a free man, I do not need to copy Petrarch or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, without artifice,Igotowork and earnmy living, my well- being, and my fame.What do Ineedmore? Witha goose quill and a few sheets of paper I mock the universe.
Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
Man is by nature a political animal; it is his nature to live in a state.
'He knows'says Hebraism,'his Bible!'whenever we hear this said, we may, without any elaborate defence of culture, content ourselves with answering simply: 'No man, who knows nothing else, knows even his Bible.'
Mr Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him.
His harmonical and ingenious soul did lodge in a beautiful and well proportioned body. He was a spare man. He was so fair that they called him the lady of Christ's College.
The first sense he had of God was when he was eleven years oldat Chigwell being retired intoa chamberalone: he was so suddenly surprised with a sense of inward comfort and (as he thought) an external glory in the room that he had many times said that from thence he has the Seal of Divinityand Immortality, that there was a God and thatthesoul of manwas capable ofenjoying his divine communications.
In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.
To save your world you asked this man to die: Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
Manisa history-making creaturewho canneither repeat his past nor leave it behind.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to beginwith doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Quod enim mavult homo verum esse, id potius credit. For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.
There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and mastersthefearofdeath. And therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.
Merit and good works is the end of man's motion, and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest.
He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the questionwhen a manshould marry? 'Ayoung man not yet, an elder man not at all.'
It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth Man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. See Berkeley 79:7. 48
There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
If a man look sharply, and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
If you would work any man, you must either know his nature and fashions, and so lead him; or his ends, and so persuade him; or his weakness and disadvantages, and so awe him, or those that have interest in him, and so govern him.
If a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, hehad need have a present wit; and if he read little he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
No man can tickle himself.
The world's a bubble; and the life of man Less than a span.
So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing theagonies of the damned, but give hima littlemetal, a fewchemicals,somewireand twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.
Ithink it iswellalsofor themaninthestreettorealizethat there is no power on earth that can protect him from being bombed.Whatever people will tell him, the bomber will always get through.The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly thanthe enemy if you want to save yourselves.
'It's I, JamieTelfer o'the fair Dodhead, And a harried man I think I be! There's naething left at the fair Dodhead But a waefu' wife and bairnies three.'
Un homme n'a jamais pu e lever sa ma|"tresse jusqu'a' lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A man can never elevate his mistress to his rank, but a woman can always place her lover as high as she.
L'homme n'est ni bon ni me chant, il na|"t avec des instincts et des aptitudes. Manisneithergoodnorevil; heisbornwith instinctsand abilities.
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
A! fredome is a noble thing! Fredome mayss man to haiff liking, Fredome all solace to man giffis: He levys at ess that frely levys!
Except the American woman, nothing interests the eye of Americanmanmorethantheautomobile, or seemsso important to him as an object of aesthetic appreciation.
Ihavealwaysfound thatthemanwhosesecond thoughts are good is worth watching.
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.
Hypocrite lecteur,mon semblable,mon fre' re! Hypocrite readermy fellow manmy brother! See Eliot 306:55.
Homme libre, toujours tu che riras la mer. Free man! You shall always cherish the sea.
Il y a dans tout homme, a' toute heure, deux postulations simultane es, l'une vers Dieu, l'autre vers Satan. Every man at every moment has two simultaneous tendencies: one toward God, the other toward Satan.
It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire.
I see there's truth in no man, nor obedience But for his own ends.
There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot isguilty.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind- legs.But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
They represented tomeanabsolute idea of thefirst state of innocence, before man knew how to sin.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Henry Campbell-Bannerman is remembered chiefly as the man about whom all is forgotten.
Man found his form and his identity under the action of religious principles and energies; the confusion in which he is losing them cannot be re-ordered by purely human efforts.
It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.
The five senses within whose pentagon each man is alone.
Mancannot livewithout seeking todescribeand explain the universe.
You ordered.I obeyed I opened my mouth; I spoke; and at once the Crusaders have multiplied to infinity. Villages and towns are now deserted.You will scarcely find one man for every seven women. Everywhere you see widows whose husbands are still alive.
And God said, Let us create man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepethuponthe earth. So God createdmaninhis own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them,Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
And the L God formed man out of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
And theL Godsaid,It isnot good thatthemanshould be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
And the L God said,Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:Therefore the L God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the tree of life.
At the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that heshould repent: hathhesaid, and shall henot do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that hemight maketheeknow that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the L doth man live.
So Moses the servant of the L died there in the land of Moab but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard thesound of thetrumpet, and the peopleshouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. 90
The people arose as one man.
Thou art the man.
Igothewayofall theearth: bethoustrong therefore,and shew thyself a man.
But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the L hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the L hath commanded him to be captain over his people.
Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the L seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the L looketh on the heart.
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said,There is a man child conceived.
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: Job he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
When Iconsider thyheavens,theworkofthy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.Thou madest himtohave dominionover the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet.
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,HetrustedontheL that hewoulddeliverhim: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
Lo, children are an heritage of the L: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that gettethunderstanding.For themerchandise of it isbetter than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the thingsthoucanst desirearenottobe compared untoher. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for whoshall bring himtoseewhat shall be after him?
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because theyare few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low: Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and mournersgo about the streets: Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
And a manshall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Have wenot all onefather, hath not one God createdus? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
By this also ye must know that women have dominion over you: doye not labourand toil, and give and bring all to the woman? Yea, a man taketh his sword, and goeth his way to rob and to steal, to sail upon the sea and upon rivers; And looketh upon a lion, and goeth in the darkness; and when he hath stolen, spoiled, and robbed, he bringeth it to his love.
Judge none blessed before his death: for a man shall be known in his children.
A labouring manthat isgivento drunkennessshall not be rich: and he that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little.
Asthe climbing up a sandy way isto the feet of the aged, so is a wife full of words to a quiet man.
Wine is as good as life to a man, if it be drunk moderately: what life is then to a man that is without wine? for it was made to make men glad.
Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Nomancanservetwomasters: foreitherhewill hatethe one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts untoyourchildren, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and myservant shall be healed.For Iama man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man,Go, and he goeth; and to another,Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed,Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord,saveus: weperish. And hesaithuntothem,Whyare ye fearful,O ye of littlefaith? Thenhearose, and rebuked St Matthew the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. But the men marvelled, saying,What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!
No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holyangels with him, then shall he sit upon thethrone of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
And he said unto them,The sabbath was made for man, and not manfor thesabbath:Thereforethe Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
And Jesus increased inwisdomand stature, and in favour with God and man.
And he said to them all,If any manwill come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
This is my commandment,That ye love one another, as I have loved you.Greater lovehathnomanthanthis, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar.
If a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him. But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair isgiven her for a covering.
No man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
The first man is of the earth, earthy.
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Lienot oneto another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
He that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with golden girdle. His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. And when I saw him, I fell as his feet as dead.
Beatus vir qui timet Dominum, in mandatis ejus volet nimis! Happy is the man who fears the Lord, who is only too willing to follow his orders.
Ecce homo. Behold the man.
Man was kreated a little lower than the angells and has bin gittin a little lower ever since.
A man who any woman might love, but who no sane woman would marry.
Man was made for Joyand Woe, And when this we rightly know, Thro'the world we safely go. Joy and Woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine.
I care not whether a man isgood or evil; all that I care Is whether he is a wise man or a fool.Go! put off Holiness, And put on intellect, or my thunderous hammer shall drive thee, To wrath which thou condemnest, till thou obey my voice.
The manwho never in his mind and thoughtstravelled to heaven is no artist.
Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself.
What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutelyset, ingeniousmachinefor turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?
When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.
That which once united man Now drives him apart.We are not helpless Creatures crashing onwards irresistibly to doom. There is time for everything and time to choose For everything.We are that time, that choice. Everybody gets what he deserves.
A Man for All Seasons.
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world But for Wales!
Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here in the sight of God, and in the face of this Congregation, to join together this man and this woman in holy Matrimony; which is an honourable estate, instituted of God.
Man that isbornof a womanhath but a short timeto live, and is full of misery.
Up, Lord, and let not man have the upper hand.
I myself have seen the ungodly in great power, and flourishing like a green bay-tree.I went by, and lo, he was gone: I sought him, but his place could no where be found. Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right: for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
A Man may not marry his Grandmother.
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one; in this way, every man is two men.
Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which makehimuniqueamong theanimals, sothat unlikethem he is not a figure in the landscapehe is the shaper of the landscape.
I reflected how easy it is for a man to reduce women of a certain age to imbecility. All he has to do isgive an impersonation of desire, or better still, of secret knowledge, for a woman to feel herself a source of power.
Every man is not a proper champion for truth, nor fit to take up the gauntlet in the cause of verity.
Every man's own reason is his best Oedipus.
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.
In the natural fog of the good man's mind.
No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!
There's a new tribunal now Higher than God's,the educated man's!
What shall we say of the intelligence, not to say religion, of those who are so particular to distinguish between fishes and reptiles and birds, but put a man with an immortalsoul inthesame circlewiththewolf, thehyena, and theskunk? What must betheimpressionmadeupon children by such a degradation of man?
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else isgrandiose romanticism or politics.
Oh, the diligence of Satan! Oh, the desperateness of man's heart!
A man that could look no way but downwards, with a muckrake in his hand.
Whatevereachmancanseparatelydo, withouttrespassing upon others, he has a right to dofor himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all whichsociety, with all its combination of skill and force, can do in his favour.
Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.
It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.
From scenes like these, old S's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, 'An honest man's the noble work of G'. See Pope 660:25.
Man's inhumanity to Man Makes countless thousands mourn!
Then gently scan your brother Man, Still gentler sister Woman; Tho'they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human.
Is there for honest Poverty That hings his head, and a'that; The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a'that! For a'that, and a'that, Our toils obscure, and a'that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a'that.
A man's a man for a'that.
For a'that, and a'that, It's comin' yet for a'that, That Man to Man the warld o'er Shall brothers be, for a'that.
There's death in the cupsae beware! Nay, morethere is danger in touching; But wha can avoid the fell snare? The man and his wine's sae bewitching!
It was through the Second World War that most of us suddenlyappreciated for the first time the power of man's concentrated efforts to understand and control the forces of nature.We were appalled by what we saw.
After all, it is not every man who nearly becomes Prime Minister of England.
Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron!
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his own propertyat the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
There is something both gratifying and humiliating in watching a man who has taken you for a routinely silly woman begin to take you seriously.
The exercise of singing isdelightful tonatureandgood to preserve the health of Man.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man less, but nature more.
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Oceanroll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruinhis control Stops with the shore.
Old man! 'tis not so difficult to die. Don Juan
He thought about himself, and the whole earth, Of man the wonderful, and of the stars, And how the deuce they ever could have birth; And then he thought of earthquakes, and of wars, How many miles the moon might have in girth, Of air-balloons, and of the many bars To perfect knowledge of the boundless skies; And then he thought of Donna Julia's eyes.
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence. SeeAmis14:84.
A manpossessesnothing certainlysavea brief loanof his own body.
Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power to ease me. Maids are full of longing thoughtsthat breed a bloodless sickness, And that, oft I hear men say, is only cured by quickness.
L'homme se trouve devant l'irrationnel. Il sent en lui son de s ir de bonheur et de raison. L'absurde na|"t de cette confrontation entre l'appel humain et le silence de raisonnable du monde. Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.
If you hate a man, though only in secret, never trust him, because hate is hardly to be hidden.
We have a faith in the imperishable dignityof man; in the high vocation to which, throughout this his earthly history, he has been appointed.
There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
Man is a tool-using animal Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under the sun.
Surely of all 'rights of man', this right of the ignorant man tobeguided by thewiser, tobe, gentlyor forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.
In epochs when cash payment has become the sole nexus of man to man.
The man who dies richdies disgraced.
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I'll tell thee everything I can: There's little to relate. I saw an aged, aged man, A-sitting on a gate.
One man shall have one vote.
A man who does not believe in human beings is not a revolutionary.
Ille mi par esse Deo videtur, ille, si fas est, superare Divos, qui sedens adversus identidem te spectat et audit dulce ridentem. He seems to me to be like a god, even superior to the Gods, if it is permitted to say so, the man who sits gazing on you all day and listens to your sweet laughter.
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.
Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.
Soccer is a man's game; not an outing for mamby- pambies.
For of fortunes sharpe adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.
Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas, And yet he semed bisier than he was.
And therefore, at the kynges court, my brother, Ech man for hymself, ther is noon oother.
A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
The difference inthis case between a manof senseand a fop, is, thatthefopvalueshimself uponhis dress; theman of sense laughs at it, at the same time that he knows he must not neglect it.
There isa great manwhomakes every manfeelsmall.But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
And goodness only knowses The Noselessness of Man.
This monstrous mixture of imbecility, extravagance and political hysteria, better known as the Bill for the future government of Irelandthis farrago of superlative nonsense, is to be put in motion for this reason and no other: to gratify the ambition of an old man in a hurry.
This is no war for domination or imperial aggrandisement or material gain It is a warto establish, on impregnable rocks, the rights of the individual and it is a war to establish and revive the stature of man.
The Bomb brought peace, but man alone can keep that peace.
Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and, at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension and still more beyond his control.
The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.
I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator God And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where I lie The grass below, above, the vaulted sky.
Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.
He holds him with his glittering eye The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years'child: The Mariner hath his will. The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: He cannot choose but hear; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner.
He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small.
He went like one that hath been stunned, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.
The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned thathe isgoing to be a beginner all his life.
My old man said,'Follow the van, Don't dilly-dally on the way!' Off went the cart with the home packed in it, I walked behind with my old cock linnet. But I dillied and dallied, dallied and dillied, Lost the van and don't know where to roam. You can't trust the'specials' like the old time 'coppers' When you can't find your way home.
O thou, the friend of man assigned, With balmy hands his wounds to bind, And charm his frantic woe: When first Distress with dagger keen Broke forth to waste his destined scene, His wild unsated foe!
Man was by Nature Woman's cully made: We never are, but by ourselves, betrayed.
Thereisnothing moreunbecoming a manofquality than to laugh;Jesu,'tissuchavulgarexpressionofthepassion!
A fellow that lives ina windmill hasnot a more whimsical dwelling thantheheartof a manthat islodged inawoman.
Imprisoned inevery fat manathinoneiswildlysignalling to be let out.
A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls
The difference between Beethoven and Mahler is the difference betweenwatching a great manwalkdownthe street and watching a great actor act the part of a great man walking down the street.
The man that hails youTom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it.
God made the country, and man made the town.
The cold charities of man to man.
There anchoring, Peter chose from man to hide, There hang his head, and view the lazy tide In its hot slimy channel slowly glide; Where the small eels that left the deeper way For the warm shore, within the shallows play; Where gaping mussels, left upon the mud, Slope their slow passage to the fallen flood.
Wellcome, all Wonders in one sight! Eternity shut in a span. Summer in Winter, Day in Night. Heaven in Earth and God in Man.
a politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.
If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.
Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection.
We must however acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualitiesstill bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
I know my life's a pain and but a span, I know my sense is mocked in every thing; And to conclude, I know myself a man, Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing.
Whena manisdownonhisluck heseemsto consumeall he can get of coffee and doughnuts.
My man Friday.
I have the head now of myself, and am man enough for a woman.
Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.
And sad,Oh sad, that glen with one thin stream He met his death in; and a farmer told me There was but one small bird to shoot: it sang 'Better Beast and know your end, and die Than Man with murderous angels in his head.'
'No better opening anywhere,'said my aunt,'for a man who conducts himself well, and is industrious.'
As to marriage on the part of a man, my dear, Society requires that heshould retrieve his fortunes by marriage. Society requires that he should gain by marriage. Society requires that he should found a handsome establishment by marriage. Society does not see, otherwise, what he has to do with marriage. Bleak House
I care for no manon earth, and no man on earth cares for me.
Rearrange a 'Wife's'affection! When they dislocate my Brain! Amputate my freckled Bosom! Make me bearded like a man!
L'homme est ne pour la socie te ; se parez-le, isolez-le, ses ide es se de suniront, son caracte' re se tournera, mille affections ridicules s'e le' veront dans son coeur; des 274 pense es extravagantes germeront dans son esprit, comme les ronces dans une terre sauvage. Man is born to live in society: separate him, isolate him, and his ideas disintegrate, his character changes, a thousand ridiculous affectations rise up in his heart; extreme thoughts take hold in his mind, like the brambles in a wild field.
I am looking for an honest man.
A good eater must be a good man; fora good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
The question is this: is man an ape or an angel? I am on the side of the angels.
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
If man were anything, he's nothing now.
It istoo littleto call mana little world; except God, manis a diminutive to nothing.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved inmankind; and thereforenever send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book.
If the devil doesn't exist, but manhas created him, hehas created him in his own image and likeness.
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
A child of eight is many-sided. By eighteen most of his auspicious angles have been polished away; he is
Who loves not music and the heavenly muse, That man God hates.
The Montreal Olympics can no more have a deficit than a man can have a baby.
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Moderate sorrow Fits vulgar love, and for a vulgar man: But I have lov'd with such transcendent passion, I soar'd, at first, quite out of reason's view, And now am lost above it.
A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long: But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! Tosparethegrossness ofthenames, and to dothe thing yet moreseverely, isto drawa full face, and tomake the nose and cheeks stand out, and yet not to employ any depth of shadowing.
Arms, and the man I sing, who, forced by fate, And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate, Expelled and exiled, left theTrojan shore.
[Chaucer] must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his CanterburyTales the various manners and humours of the whole English nation in his age.
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work, for man to mend.
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to th'appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
To bea poor manishard, buttobe a poorraceina land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
A man wants what a woman hassex. He can steal it (rape), persuade her to give it away (seduction), rent it (prostitution), leaseit over thelong term (marriage inthe United States), or own it outright (marriage in most societies).
One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man.
How many roads must a man walk down Before you can call him a man? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.
Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity? Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all? Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul Wherein the Beast ravens in its own avidity?
Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
A fine man who, in the middle of a stormy lake, knows nothing of swimming.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds; and until we know what has been or will be the peculiar combination of outward with inward facts, which constitute a man's critical actions, it will be better not to thinkourselves wise about his character.
The mother's yearning, thatcompletest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
No vers is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.
Littleman, littleman! The word 'must' isnotto be usedto princes!
Story is just just desertsman in the crucible like jack in the box.
Bubber was the first man I heard use the expression,'it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.' Everything, and I repeat, everything had to swing.
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fibre and liquidsand Imight even be said to possess a mind.I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imaginationindeed, everything and anything except me.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Music is the poor man's Parnassus.
Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.
MissTwye was soaping her breasts in the bath When she heard behind her a meaning laugh And to her amazement she discovered A wicked man in the bathroom cupboard.
I've danced with a man, who's danced with a girl, who's danced with the Prince of Wales.
Ibelievemanwill not merelyendure, hewill prevail.Heis immortal, not because he, alone among creatures, has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twentyand forty.
No man can write who is not first a humanitarian.
But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.
Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.
Der Mensch ist, was er isst. Man is what he eats.
It ain't a fit night out for man or beast.
Latin. Langage naturel de l'homme. Ga" te l'e criture. Est seulement utile pour comprendre les inscriptions des fontaines publiques. Il faut se me fier des citations en Latin; elles cachent toujours quelque chose de leste. Latin. Man's natural language. Spoils your style.Useful only for reading the inscriptions on public fountains. Beware of quotations in Latin: theyalways conceal something improper.
I would rather have a man dog then a women dog because they do not bear like women dogs, it is a hard case it is shoking.
Ah! si l'on o" tait les chime' res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?
The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.
I should say that Rossetti was a manwithout principles at all, who earnestlydesiredtofindsalvationalong thelines of least resistance.
It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
Death destroys a man: the idea of death saves him. 331
Souvent femme varie, Mal habil qui s'y fie Woman is often fickle, Foolish the man who trusts her.
I am actually not at all a man of science I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador, an adventurer.
The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb.We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forcedby what? Bya system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.
He knew too well for any earthly use The line where man leaves off and nature starts, And never overstepped it save in dreams.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself.
Asthe friend of the negro assumes that one man cannot, by right, hold another in bondage, should the friend of woman assume that man cannot, by right, lay even well- meant restrictions on woman.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
Till now man has been up against Nature: from now on he will be up against his own nature.
I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.
In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it.
A manis so in the way in the house!
To cheat a man isnothing; but the womanmust have fine parts indeed who cheats a woman!
I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man Who could ask for anything more.
If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during whichthe conditionof thehumanrace was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
He said that, by god,D. H. Lawrence was right when he had said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly- tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?
Le bonheur de l'homme n'est pas dans la liberte , mais dans l'acceptation d'un devoir. Man'shappiness doesnot come from freedom but inthe acceptance of a task.
When a felon's not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest man's Ah! When constabulary duty's to be done A policeman's lot is not a happy one.
And everyone will say, As you walk your mystic way, 'If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for me, Why, what a very singularly deep young man this deep young man must be!'
A commonplace young man, A matter-of-fact young man, A steady and stolid-y, jolly Bank-Holiday Every-day young man!
A Japanese young man, A blue and white young man, Francesca di Rimini, miminy, piminy, Je-ne-sais-quoi young man. 354
A Chancery Lane young man, A Somerset House young man, Avery delectable, highly respectable, Threepenny-bus young man!
A pallid and thin young man, A haggard and lank young man, A greenery-yallery,Grosvenor Gallery, Foot-in-the-grave young man! A Sewell & Cross young man, A Howell & James young man, A push-ing young par-ti-cle 'What's the next ar-ti-cle?' Wa-ter-loo House young man!
Oh, is there not one maiden here Whose homely face and bad complexion Have caused all hopes to disappear Of ever winning man's affection?
That state is a state of Slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.
The artist is not a special kind of man but every man a special kind of artist.
Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it.
Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.
I span and Eve span A thread to bind the heart of man!
C'est de la' que vient tout le mal: Dieu est un homme. All evil comes from this fact: God is a man.
It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into, that countedand the manwho was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.
Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt. Man will err while yet he strives.
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy.
I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population.
The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.
I don't care if it doesn't make a nickel. I just want every man, woman and child in America to see it!
Any manwho goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined.
Wan swelh w|"p tugendet wider ir art, diu gerne wider ir art bewart ir lop, ir e" re unde ire l|"p, diu ist niwan mit namen ein w|"p und ist ein man mit muote. When a woman grows in virtue despite her nature and gladly preserves the integrity of her honour, her reputation, and her person, she is onlya woman in name: in spirit she is a man.
A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted, he must also be right.
We of the long tails! We of the presentient whiskers! We of the perpetually growing teeth! We, the serried footnotes to man, his proliferating commentary.We, indestructible!
To bring the dead to life Is no great magic. Feware wholly dead: Blow on a dead man's embers And a live flame will start.
Our Man in Havana.
The man who offers a bribe gives awaya little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has just paid for a woman.
This man,Comrades, has a nice smile, but he has iron teeth.
'Cause some make forfeit of their name, And slave themselves to man's desire; Shall the sex free From guilt, damn'd to the bondage be?
Give me a manwith big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.
Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement.With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of ourcause, each one of us must fight on until the end.
Fish got to swim and birdsgot to fly I got to love one man till I die Can't help lovin'dat man of mine.
Ol'Man River.
I'm Gonna WashThat Man Right Outa My Hair.
I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink too much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.
Masturbation is the thinking man's television.
Can a Man be a Christian on a Pound a Week?
That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
No man likes to see his emotions the sport of a merry- go-round of skittishness.
There was a natural instinct to abjure man as the blot on an otherwise kindly universe.
Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong woman the man, many thousand years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order.
And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: 'Givemea lightthat Imay tread safely intotheunknown.' Hawking And he replied: 'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.'
As a boy I genuinely believed in the man who never ate bacon because its red and white stripesreminded himof Sheffield Unitedindeed in my blue and white Wednesday heart I applauded and supported his loyalty.
The love of posterity is a consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
The Frenchhad a moremartial air thanthe English.There seemed to be a species of military instinct in all classes. No young man appeared to have finished his education till after a bloody campaign They were at this singular period, without the least exaggeration, a century behind us in notions of legal and moral responsibility.
We are only beginning to understand on how subtle a communication system the functioning of an advanced industrial society is baseda communications system which we call the market and which turns out to be a more efficient mechanism for digesting dispersed information than any that man has deliberately designed.
Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
A nickname istheheaviest stonethatthe devil canthrow at a man.
How culpable was he That last night when he broke Our tribe's complicity? 'Now you're supposed to be An educated man,' I hear him say.'Puzzle me The right answer to that one.'
He was a self-made manwho owed his lackof successto nobody.
And a man who lay with a beast, said the Lord, would surelydie. And if he doesn't lie with a beast,Iwould have countered, he won't die?
That's what you always said, success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight, and you were right.
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, thanthemanwho has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any man could have.
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
The man that will nocht quhen he may Sall haif nocht quhen he wald.
When a man says he likes a woman in a skirt, I tell him to try one.
Milord, in that case an Act of God was defined as 'something which no reasonable man could have expected'.
The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figurethe figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
My God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately habitation, But that he means to dwell therein. What house more stately hath there been, Or can be, than is Man? to whose creation All things are in decay.
Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.
O mighty love! Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him.
When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, 'Let us,'said he,'pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which disperse' d lie, Contract into a span'.
Since no normal humble man can help but feel magnificent in a brand-new suit of clothes, it is not surprising that those who don a fresh suit of bright white linen every day should feel magnificent always. Nor is it surprising that a normal humble head should swell beneath a solar topee, since a topee is more a badge of authority than a hat, as is the hat of a soldier.
The value, or worth of a man, is as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withall. In such condition, there isno place for industry; becausethe fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving, and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Man wants but little drink below, But wants that little strong.
For the rational study of the law the blackletter man may be the man of the present, but the man of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics.
Victory switches from man to man.
It is no shame for a man to die fighting for his country. Honorius of Autun
Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven far journeys, after he had sacked Troy's sacred citadel. Many were they whose cities he saw, whose minds he learned of, many the pains he suffered in his spirit on the wide sea, struggling for his own life and the homecoming of his companions.
Man doth seek a triple perfection: first a sensual, consisting in those things which very life itself requireth either as necessary supplements, or as beauties and ornaments thereof; then an intellectual, consisting in those things which none underneath man is either capable of or acquainted with; lastly a spiritual and divine, consisting in those things whereunto we tend by supernatural means here, but cannot here attain unto them.
People moved in hushed and anxious hours while his life lingered on. It was thus I learned that some great man was at the helm of our country.
Dewey has no inner reserve of knowledge on which to draw for his thinking. A man couldn't wear a moustache like that without having it affect his mind.
Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwistslack they may bethese last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Cansomething, hope, wish daycome, not choose not to be.
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wearsman'ssmudgeand sharesman'ssmell: thesoil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built onTrent? Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think.
The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me; And if my ways are not as theirs Let them mind their own affairs.
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Dieu s'est fait homme; Soit! Le diable s'est fait femme. God made himself a man. So be it! The devil made himself a woman.
Ce ge nie particulier de la femme qui comprend l'homme mieux que l'homme ne se comprend. Awoman'sparticular talent istounderstand a manbetter than he understands himself.
Le premier sympto" me de l'amour vrai chez un jeune homme, c'est la timidite , chez une jeune fille, c'est la hardiesse. The first symptom of true love in a young man istimidity; in a young woman, it is boldness.
Art may make a suit of clothes; But nature must produce a man.
A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.
Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the brutes; for he alone possesses the marvellous endowment of intelligible and rational speech wherebyhe has slowlyaccumulated and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of individual life in other animals; so that he now stands raised above it as on a mountain-top, far above the level of his humble fellows, and transfigured from his grosser nature by reflecting, here and there, a ray from the infinite source of truth.
Flertallet har aldrig retten pafi sin side. Aldrig, siger jeg! Det er en af disse samfundslÖgnere, som en fri, t½nkende mand mafi gÖre oprÖr imod. Hvem er det, som udgÖr flertallet af beboerne i et land? Er det de kloge folk, eller er det de' dumme? Jeg t½nker, vi fafi r vaere enige om, at dumme mennesker er tilstede i en ganske forskr½kkelig overv½ldende majoritet rundt omkring pafi den hele vide jord. The majority never has right on its side.Never,I say! That is one of the social lies that a free, thinking man is bound to rebel against.Who makes up the majority in any given country? Is it the wise men or the fools? I think we must agree that the fools are in a terrible overwhelming majority, all the wide world over.
Many people believe that theyare attracted by God, or by Nature, when theyare only repelled by man.
An honest God is the noblest work of man. See Pope 660:25.
What ishistory, in fact, but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man?
To shave the beard is a sin that the blood of all the martyrs cannot cleanse.It is to deface the image of man created by God.
'Dealing with a man,'said thenight-watchman,'isas easy as a teetotaller walking along a nice wide pavement; dealing with a woman is like the same teetotaller, after four or five whiskies, trying to get up a step that ain't there.'
Please allow me to introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste. I've been around for a long, long year Stole many a man's soul and faith. And I was around when Jesus Christ Had his moments of doubt and pain, Made damn sure that Pilate Washed his hands and sealed his fate. Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name But what's puzzling you Is the nature of my game.
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
Man lives by science as well as bread.
Man is essentially the imitative animal. His whole educabilityand in fact the whole history of civilization depend on this trait, which his strong tendencies to rivalry, jealousy, and acquisitiveness reinforce.
Hogamus, higamous Man is polygamous Higamus, hogamous Woman monogamous.
Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?
And boys, be in nothing so moderate as in love of man, a clever servant, insufferable master.
The poet as well Builds his monument mockingly; For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun Die blind, his heart blackening: Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found The honey peace in old poems.
I'd sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than a hawk.
Man's contribution to human history is nothing more than a drop of sperm.
If civil authorities legislate for or allow anything that is contrary to that order and therefore contrary to the will of God, neither the laws made or the authorizations granted can be binding on the consciences of the citizens, since God has more right to be obeyed than man.
This country needs to be united. And sadly, sadly, he wasn't the man who could do it.
I am a free man, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
The Dutch may havetheir Holland, the Spaniard have his Spain, TheYankee to the south of us must south of us remain; For not a man dare lift a hand against the men who brag That they were born in Canada beneath the British flag.
Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.
Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.
I had done all I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
There are few ways in which a man can be so innocently employed than in getting money.
It mattersnot howa mandies,but how helives.Theact of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Jazz has always been a man telling the truth about himself.
: Come, indeed, la, you are such a fool, still! : No, but half a one,Win; you are thet'other half: man and wife make one fool,Win.
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One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
Greater lovethanthis,hesaid, nomanhaththat a manlay down his wife for his friend.Go thou and do likewise. Thus, or words to that effect, saith Zarathustra, sometime regius professor of French letters to the university of Oxtail.
So the two brothers and their murdered man Rode past fair Florence.
Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit. Man proposes, but God disposes.
Gloria boni hominis, testimonium bon× conscienti×. The testimony of a good conscience is the good man's glory.
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; but ittakes a veryclever womantomanagea fool.
The Man who Would be King.
Being kissed bya man who didn't wax his moustache waslike eating an egg without salt.
A man lives well and happily until he begins to feel unwell. Then he feels worse because the climate allows him no chance of pulling himself togetherand then he dies.
There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake, Or the way of a man with a maid; But the sweetest way to me is a ship's upon the sea In the heel of the North-East Trade.
So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan; You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man; An''ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, with your 'ayrick 'ead of 'air You big black boundin' beggarfor you broke a British square!
Though I've belted you and flayed you, By the livin'Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am,Gunga Din!
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army isthe non-commissioned man!
Take up the White Man's burden Send forth the best ye breed Go, bind your sons to exile To serve your captives'need.
'Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ever tasted Man?' 'No,'said the Whale.'What is it like?' 'Nice,'said the small 'Stute Fish.'Nice but nubbly.'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kingsnor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it. Andwhich is moreyou'll be a Man, my son!
One man in a thousand, Solomon says, Will stick more close than a brother.
Un homme avec Dieu est toujours dans la majorite . One man with God is always a majority.
There was once a man who said 'God Must think it exceedingly odd If he finds that this tree Continues to be When there's no-one about in the Quad.' SeeAnonymous 22:51.
Man prays for evil, as he prays for good; man is ever hasty.
By the snorting chargers, by the strikers of fire, by the dawn raiders blazing a trail of dust, cleaving there with a host! Surely Man is ungrateful to his Lord.
Howdarehemake lovetomeand not be a married man?
God made the integers, man made the rest.
A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.
Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.
Un homme est plus fide' le au secret d'autrui qu'au sien propre; une femme au contraire garde mieux son secret que celui d'autrui. A man keeps another person's secret better than his own; a woman, on the contrary, keeps her own secrets better than those of others.
A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
I hate a manwho swallows it, affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.
If the husband be a man with whom you have lived on a friendly footing before marriage,if you did not come inonthewife'sside,if youdid not sneak intothehouse in her train, but were an old friend in first habits of intimacy before their courtship was so much as thought on,look about you Every long friendship, every old authentic intimacy, must be brought into their office to be new stamped with their currency, as a sovereign Prince calls in the good old money that was coined in some reign before he was born or thought of, to be new marked and minted with the stamp of his authority, before he will let it pass current in the world.
How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself.
How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself.
The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
When two equally matched armiesmeet, it isthemanof sorrow who wins.
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as earlyas you can, And don't have any kids yourself.
Be of good comfort Master Ridley, and play the man.We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as (I trust) shall never be put out.
Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to different species.
If, therefore, a man will so live as to show that he feels and believes the most fundamental doctrines of Christianity, he must live above the world.
The wonderful Southernnight-sky that makes a manfeel so lonely, alien: with Orion standing on his head in the west, and his sword-belt upside down, and his Dog-star prancing in mid-heaven, high above him; and with the Southern Cross insignificantly mixed in with the other stars, democratically inconspicuous.
What do the facts we know about a man amount to? Only two things we can know of him, and this by pure soul-intuition: we can know if he is true to the flame of life and love which is inside his heart, or if he is false to it.
I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.
I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.
Now mancannot live without somevisionof himself.But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.
And being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, the scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog.
We were a self-centred army without parade or gesture, devoted to freedom, the second of man's creeds, a purpose so ravenous that it devoured all our strength, a hope so transcendent that ourearlier ambitions faded in its glare.
A man hates to be moved to folly bya noise.
The great manwalks across his centuryand leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his galoshes as he passes.
A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something. Not that he's cruel. He wouldn't hurt a fly. It's not big enough.
Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman'and the axe will fall when they raise meto the degreeof 'grandoldman'.Thatmeansonourcontinentany onewithsnow-whitehair whohaskeptoutof jailtill eighty.
No white man ever had the blues.
There was an old man of Thermopylae, Who never did anything properly; But they said,'If you choose To boil eggs in your shoes, You shall never remain inThermopylae.'
Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions.
The thing depicted is less stationary, even the object in itself is less discernible than it used to be. A landscape broken into and traversed in a car or an express train losesindescriptivevaluebut gainsinsynthetic value; the window of the railroad carriage or the windshield of the car, combined withthespeed at whichyou aretraveling, have changed the familiar look of things. Modern man registers one hundred times more impressions than did an eighteenth century artist.
A man should have dinner with his friends, and the commanding general has no friends.
A good man fallen among Fabians.
If a man have a tent made in linen of which the apertures haveall beenstopped up, and it be twelve braccia across and twelve in depth, he will be able to throw himself down from any great height without sustaining injury.
A good painter has two chief objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul; the former is easy, the latter harder, because he has to represent it by the attitudes and movements of the limbs.
Thespanof a man's outspread armsisequal tohisheight.
Why can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can't a woman be like that?
When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it ishis chief preoccupation to avoid), his sense of guilt, which he denies, fumes up in resentment and he brings down the whip.
Wer richtig r a« sonniert, erfindet auch; und wer erfinden will, muss r a« sonnieren k o« nnen. Nur die glauben, dass sich das eine von dem anderen trennen lasse, die zu keinem von beiden aufgelegt sind. The man who can reason properly can invent; and anyone who wants to invent must be able to reason. The only people who think that the one can be separated from the other are those who have no inclination for either.
Chutzpahthat quality which enables a man who has murdered his mother and father to throw himself on the mercy of the court as an orphan.
La langue est une raison humaine qui a ses raisons, et que l'homme ne conna|"t pas. Language is a form of human reason, and has its reasons which are unknown to man. See Pascal 641:23.
A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.
All forms of government fall when it comes up to the question of breadbread for the family, something to eat.Bread to a manwith a family comes firstbefore his union, before his citizenship, before his church affiliation. Bread!
O, he flies through the air with the greatest of ease, This daring young man on the flying trapeze.
A man takes a drink, a drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
Every man also has his moral backside which he refrains fromshowing unlesshehastoand keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
Once he has stolen his100,100 thalers a rogue can walk through the world an honest man.
No man isgood enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
The mere animal pleasure of travelling in a wild unexplored country is also great The effect of travel ona manwhoseheart isintheright place isthatthemind is made more self-reliant: it becomes more confident of its own resourcesthere isgreater presence of mind The sweat of one's brow is no longer a curse when one works for God: it proves a tonic to the system, and actually a blessing. No one can trulyappreciate the charm of repose unless he has undergone severe exertion.
Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptionsthose are the peers, and theyare hereditary.
Every manhas a property in his person.Thisno body has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary rule of another man.
Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busyand boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.
For should thesoul of a prince enterand informthebody of a cobbler, as soon as deserted by his own soul, everyone sees he would be the same person with the prince, accountable only for the prince's actions; but who would say it was the same man?
Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.
His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
I have always considered that boxing really combines all the finest and highest inclinations of a manactivity, endurance, science, temper, and, last, but not least, presence of mind.
Man appearsto be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.
Every man's got to figure to get beat some time.
If we have violated any law, it was not done intentionally. We have injured no man's reputation, character, person, or property.We were meeting together to preserve ourselves, our wives, and our children from utter degradation and starvation.
And the softness of my body will be guarded by embrace By each button, hook, and lace. For the man who should loose me is dead, Fighting with the Duke in Flanders, In a pattern called a war. Christ! What are patterns for?
A man must be sacrificed now and again To provide for the next generation of men.
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
He is out of bounds now. He rejoices in man's lovely peculiar power to choose life and die when he leads his black soldiers to death, he cannot bend his back.
The man is killing timethere's nothing else.
Lat no man booste of conning nor vertu, Of tresour, richesse, nor of sapience, Of worldly support, for all cometh of Jesu.
Every manwho has seen the world knowsthat nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his God?'
A man's boots with a woman in them Clatter across the floor.
Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man. 528
When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.
The thistle yet'll unite Man and the Infinite!
A'thing that ony man can be's A mockery o' his soul at last.
All thenightthefrogsgo chuckle, all theday thebirdsare singing In the pond beside the meadow, by the roadway poplar- lined, In the field between the trenches are a million blossoms springing 'Twixt the grass of silver bayonets where the lines of battle wind Where man has manned thetrenches for the maiming of his kind.
The man that gets drunk is little else than a fool, And is in the habit, no doubt, of advocating for Home Rule; But the best Home Rule for him, as far as I can understand, Is the abolition of strong drink from the land.
A coloured man can tell, in five seconds dead, whether a
I can't be absolutely certain, 30 years ago when I made the decision to become anactor, but certainlyone of the reasons was it was the way to meet other queer men.
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man whom nobody trusts.
A man who was alleged to have the rigidity of a poker without its occasional warmth.
Ye're a verra clever chiel', man, but ye wad be nane the waur o'a hanging.
Nulli vendemus, nulli negabimus aut differemus, rectum aut justitiam. To no man will we sell, or deny, or delay, right or justice.
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.
So we thinkof Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America, Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards.
No physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can you be more humiliated.
There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to goif there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
So the child was delyverd unto Merlyn, and so he bare it forth unto syre Ector and made an holy man to crysten hym and named hym Arthur.
A man who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents onwhom hehas a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food, and, in fact, has no business to be where he is.
Unser Sterben ist mehr eineAngelegenheit der Weiterlebenden als unserer selbst. A man's dying is more the survivors'affair than his own.
Denn dem Menschen ist amWiedererkennen gelegen; er m o« chte das Alte im Neuen wiederfinden und das Typische im Individuellen. For man always searches for recognition: he would like to find the old in the new and the ordinary in the individual.
Every man who comes to England is entitled to the protection of the English law, whatever oppression he may heretofore have suffered, and whatever may be the colour of his skin, whether it is black or whether it is white.
When a man reaches old age, he will die and the same is true of a party.
Mult est fole, ki hume creit. She is a fool, who trusts a man.
We sing the love of danger.Courage, rashness, and rebellion are the elements of our poetry. Hitherto literature has tended to exalt thoughtful immobility, ecstasy, and sleep, whereas we are for aggressive movement, febrile insomnia, mortal leaps, and blows with the fist.We proclaim that the world is richer for a new beautyof speed, and our praise isfor themanat the wheel. There is no beauty now save in struggle, no masterpiece can be anything but aggressive, and hence we glorify war, militarism and patriotism.
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
But think'st thou heaven is such a glorious thing? I tell thee, Faustus, it is not half so fair As thou, or any man that breathes on earth.
The sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings.
All things that move between the quiet poles Shall be at my command: emperors and kings Are but obeyed in their several provinces, Nor can they raise the wind, or rend the clouds; But his dominion that exceeds in this Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man; A sound magician is a demi-god.
Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burne' d is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man.
It lies not in our power to love, or hate, For will in us is overruled by fate. When two are stripped, lo ere the course begin We wish that one should lose, the other win; And one especially do we affect Of two gold ingots, like in each respect. The reason no man knows, let it suffice, What we behold is censured by our eyes. Where both deliberate, the love is slight; Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?
Hombre, tienes un hijo, un hijo que te hicieron creer podr|a inmortalizarte llevando el germen de ti mismo por siglos de generaciones Tu carne, Hombre, carne deleznable, carne podrida que no puede soportar el peso de tu inmortalidad. No, no hay nada de ti mismo en esa carne. Tu hijo no te hara inmortal!' Man, you have a son, a son who they made you believe would make you immortal by carrying your seed through centuries of generations Your flesh,O man, your despicable and rotten flesh that cannot bear the sight of your immortality. No: there's nothing of yourself in that flesh.Your son won't make you immortal!'
By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.
Yo soy un hombre sincero De donde crece la palma, Yantes de morirme quiero Echar mis versos del alma. I am a sincere man from where the palm tree grows; and before I die I want to loose my verses from my heart.
Such was that happy garden-state, While man there walked without a mate.
Assume a particular state of development in the productive facilities of man and you will get a particular form of commerce and consumption. Assume particular stages of development in production, commerce and consumption and you will have a corresponding social constitution, a corresponding organisation of the family, of orders or of classes, in a word, a corresponding civil society. Assume a particular civil societyand you will get particular political conditions which are only the official expression of civil society.
In the dark room where I began My mother's life made me a man. Through all the months of human birth Her beauty fed my common earth. I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir, But through the death of some of her.
I'll be irreproachably tender; not a man, buta cloud in trousers!
L'amour est un oiseau rebelle Que nul ne peut apprivoiser. Love's a bird that will live in freedom That no man ever learned to tame.
Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
All visible objects, man, are but aspasteboard masks.But in each eventin the living act, the undoubted deedthere, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask!
For whatever is truly wonderous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
Oh God! that man should be a thing for immortal souls to sieve through!
The man who runs away will fight again.
The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like small change; it is something to be cherished and hoarded, and disbursed only when absolutely necessary.
[Jeremy] Bentham held no post at the mercy of bankers and tripe sellers; he was a man of independent means, a lawyer and politician and a heretic in general practice. It is impossible to imagine such a man occupying a chair at Harvard or Princeton.Hehad a hand intoomany pies; he was too rebellious and contumacious; he had too little respect for authority, either academic or worldly. Moreover, his mind was too wide for a professor; he Mencken could never remain safely in a groove; the whole field of social organization invited his inquiries and experiments.
He is a man who sits in the outer office of the White House hoping to hear the President sneeze.
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
Whatever his private behavior, the man and his work existed in different realms. Mencken's defects were commonplace; his virtues were not. So wonderfully uninhibited was his style that even a single sentence in a routine article proclaimed its begetter.
With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling backthat's an earthquake.
Oh, no, the machine, the machine is necessary. A man comesintoagreat hotelandsays,Iama messenger. Who is this man? He disappears walking, there is no noise, nothing. Maybe he will never come back, maybe he will never deliver the message.But a man who rides up on a great machine, this man is responsible, this man exists. He will be given messages.
Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to that stranger, the agony we cannot feel, the death we look at like a cold abstraction. Each man has his Jew; it is the other.
This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit inthe face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny,Time, Love, Beautywhat you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off-key perhaps, but I will sing.
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy of the human race.
No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.
It is the creative nature of man which has refused to let him lapse back into that unconscious unity with life which characterizes the animal world from which he made his escape.
History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.
Asgood almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a Comus, A Mask man kills a reasonable creature,God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.
As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?
Though ye take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left: ye cannot bereave him of his covetousness.
Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous birds, with those also that love thetwilight, flutterabout, amazed at what she means.
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
When I consider how my light is spent, E're half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, least he returning chide, Doth God exact day-labour, light denied, I fondly ask; But patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies,God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts, who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best, his state Is kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest: Theyalso serve who only stand and wait.
Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat.
There is a place (If ancient and prophetic fame in heav'n Err not) another world, the happy seat Of some new race called Man.
Behold me then, me for him, life for life I offer, on me let thine anger fall; Account me man; I for his sake will leave Thy bosom, and this glory next to thee Freely put off, and for him lastly die Well pleased, on me let Death wreck all his rage. 582
For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heav'n and earth.
Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.
Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.
This man of clay, son of despite.
For man to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies,O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! Light the prime work of God to me is extinct, And all her various objects of delight Annull'd, which might in part my grief have eas'd, Inferior to the vilest now become Of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, They creep, yet see, I dark in light expos'd To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, 586 Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.
God of our Fathers, what is man! That thou towards him with hand so various, Or might I say contrarious, Temperst thy providence through his short course, Not evenly, as thou rul'st The angelic orders and inferior creatures mute, Irrational and brute.
Surely, it is in youth man is most thoroughly depraved. Hell lies about us in our infancy. The youthful innocency sung by aged poets (who forget their first childhood) is nothing but ignorance of evil. As the child comes to know evil, he loves it.
The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.
The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important.There can be no substitute for myexperience and intuited knowledge.
As the god of contemporary man's idolatry, science is a two-handed engine, and as such science is too important a human activity to leave to the scientists.
Certes, c'est un sujet merveilleusement vain, divers et ondoyant, que l'homme. Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject.
Si on me presse de dire pourquoy je l'aymois, je sens que cela ne se peut exprimer, qu'en respondant: 'Parce que c'estoit luy; par ce que c'estoit moy.' If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
La plus grande chose du monde, c'est de s c° avoir estre a' soy. The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know that he is his own.
L'homme est bien insense . Il ne s c° auroit forger un ciron, et forge des Dieux a' douzaines. Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to make a maggot, and he makes Gods by the dozen.
Nostre grand et glorieux chef-d'½uvre, c'est vivre a' propos. The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
A man's a fool to look at things too near: They look back, and begin to cut up queer.
It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the old crow loves his fledglings, and the ape his cubs.
Severe and terrible punishments are enacted against theft, when it would be much better to enable every man to earn his own living, instead of being driven to the awful necessity of stealing and then dying for it.
The man lies late since he has lost his job, smokes on one elbow, letting his coughs fall thinly into an air too poor to rob.
When you see how in this happy country the lowest and poorest member of society takes an interest in all public affairs; when you see how high and low, rich and poor, are all willing to declare their feelings and convictions; when you see howa carter, a common sailor, a beggar is still a man, nay, even more, an Englishmanthen, believe me, you find yourself very differently affected fromtheexperienceyoufeelwhenstaring atoursoldiers drilling in Berlin.
Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man isgoing to do before he does it.
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him12 ounces of paper and ink and glueyou sell him a whole new life.
It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, it is absolutely essential.
There are two things no man will admit he can't do welldrive and make love.
As a military man who has given half a century of active service,Isay inall sincerity thatthenucleararmsracehas no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons; their existence onlyadds to our perils because of the illusions that they have generated. The world now stands on the brink of the final abyss. Let us all resolve to take all possible practicable steps to ensurethat we donot, through ourownfolly, go over the edge.
The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.
Ihave precious little sympathy for theselfish proprietyof civilized man, and if awarof racesshould occurbetween the wild beasts and Lord Man, I would be tempted to sympathise with the bears.
Apparently the average man sees woman alternatelyas an inferior being and as an angel.
A man can be a parent without knowing it: a woman cannot.
War is to man as maternity to women.
Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.
When a man of my name is in power, he must do great things.
It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Stalinthat great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age The occasion is not merely the passing away of a great figure but perhaps the ending of an historic era.
I wish to say Nelson confides that every man will do his duty.
Sucede que me canso de mis pies y mis un as y mi pelo y mi sombra. Sucede que me canso de ser hombre. I happen to be tired of my feet and my nails and my hair and my shadow. I happen to be tired of being a man.
Ich lehre euch den Ubermenschen. Der Mensch ist Etwas, das u« berwunden werden soll. I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be surpassed.
Der Mensch ist ein Seil, geknu« pft zwischenTier und « Ubermensch,ein Seil u« ber einem Abgrunde. Man is a rope, fastened between animal and Supermana rope over an abyss.
Was groÞ ist am Menschen, das ist, dass er eine Bru« cke und kein Zweck ist. Nietzsche What isgreat in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be thanthis'devoted and obedient'. This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse.It would not do for a policeman.
The kind of a man that men likenot womenis the kind of man that makes the best husband.
Every time I leave the old man I feel like a thousand dollars.
I take to be the central fact to man born in America I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy.
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life!
A thousand influences constantly press a working man into a passive role. He does not act, he is acted upon.
To the ordinary working man, the sort you would meet in any pub on Saturday night, Socialism does not mean much more than better wages and shorter hours and nobody bossing you about.
I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone? See Connolly 233:82.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
Ere man's corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and unconfin'd Obey'd the dictates of his godlike mind.
No woman has to prove herself a woman in the grim way a man has to prove himself a man. He must perform, or the show does not go on. Social convention is irrelevant. A flop is a flop.
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink fromtheservice of his country; but hethat standsit now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Man is not the enemy of Man, but through the medium of a false system of government.
It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only theapplication of themthat is human. Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable asthose by whichthe universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe.
The Little Disturbances of Man.
Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?
When a man takes a farm from which another has been evicted, you must show him on the roadside when you meet him; you must show him in the streets of the town; you must show him in the fair and the market place; and even in the house of worship, by leaving him severely aloneby putting him into a moral Coventry, by isolating himfromhiskindasif hewerea leperofold.You must show himyourdetestationofthe crimesthat hehas committed.
And it is a good sign that this masquerading knight- errant, this pretended champion of the rights of every other nation except those of the Irish nation, should be obliged to throw off the mask today, and to stand revealed as the man who by his own utterances is prepared to carry fire and sword into your homesteads unless you humbly abase yourselves before him, and before the landlords of the country.
No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation. No man has a right to say to his country,'Thus far thou shalt go and no further.'
Padre nuestro que esta s en el cielo Lleno de toda clase de problemas Con el cen o fruncido Como si fueras un hombre vulgar y corriente No pienses ma s en nosotros. Our Father who art in Heaven Full of all kinds of problems Ceaselessly frowning As if you were a simple man: Stop thinking about us.
Look out for this man's music; he has something to say and knows how to say it.
Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion.
Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e tonne et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on trouve un homme. When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.
L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error that cannot be eradicated except through grace.
Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.
Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre. The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
L'homme n'est qu'un roseau, le plus faible de la nature; mais c'est un roseau pensant. Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Qu'est-ce que l'homme dans la nature? Un ne ant a' l'e gard de l'infini, un tout a' l'e gard du ne ant, un milieu entre rien et tout. What is man in nature? Nothing in comparison to the infinite, all in comparison to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.
L'homme n'est ni ange ni be" te, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la be" te. Man is neither angel nor beast.Unfortunately, he who wants to act the angel often acts the beast.
En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise rable: il est donc mise rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|"t. In one word, man knows that he is miserable and therefore he is miserable because he knows it; but he is also worthy, because he knows his condition.
Oh, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing man cannot choose but pay, How has she cheapened paradise: How given for naught her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spilled the wine, Which, spent with due, respective thrift, Had made brutes men, and men divine.
Angry Young Man.
Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.
When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of [the] universe, every phase of present or past lifetherein, has been examined, classified, and coordinatedwith the rest, thenthemissionof sciencewill be completed.What isthisbut saying thatthetaskof science canneverend till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases?
Qualis dominus talis est servus. Like master like man.
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher.
If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished.
The atrocious crime of being a young man, which [Walpole] has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies cease with their youth, and not of those who continue ignorant in spite of their age and experience.
We must recollectwhat it is we have at stake, what it is we have to contend for. It is for our property, it is for our liberty, it is for our independence, nay for our existence as a nation; it is for our character, it is for our very name as Englishmen, it is for everything dear and valuable to man on this side of the grave.
Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit. A man is a wolf, and not a man, to another man, for as long as he doesn't know what he is like.
Every unjust man is unjust against his will.
For myself I am fairly certain that no wise man believes anyone sins willingly or willingly perpetrates any evil or base act.
Asthe strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Ihave no faith in humanperfectibility Man isnow only more activenot more happynor more wise, than he was 6,000 years ago.
To be thoroughly conversant with a Man'sheart istotake our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.
To vilifya great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics But if science is feared, it is above all because it can give no happiness Man, then, can not be happy through science buttoday he canmuch less be happy without it.
Now it came to passthat theTartars made them a King whosenamewas Chinghis Kaan[Genghis Khan].Hewas a manof great worth, and of great ability, and valour. And as soon as the news that he had been chosen King was spread abroad through those countries, all theTartars in the world came to him and owned him for their Lord.
No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free, More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.
Awake, my St.John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since Life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the Manners living as they rise. Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man. See Milton 580:93.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never Is, but alwaysTo be blest.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest, In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer, Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much.
A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Alas! in truth the man but changed his mind, Perhaps was sick, in love, or had not dined.
But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
Books and the Man I sing, the first who brings The Smithfield Muses to the Ear of Kings. Say great Patricians! (since your selves inspire These wond'rous works; so Jove and Fate require) Say from what cause, in vain decry'd and curst, Still Dunce the second reigns like Dunce the first?
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
I never mentioned a man but with the view Of selling my own works. The tip's a good one, as for literature It gives no man a sinecure.
The response is to the image, not to the man, since 99 percent of the voters have no contact with the man.
It's not what's there that counts, it's what's projected andit's not what he projects but rather what the voter receives It's not the man we have to change, but rather the received impression.
Man is the measure of all things, of the existence of the things that are, and the non-existence of the things that are not.
There was an old man of St Omer Who objected,'This town's a misnomer; You've no right to translate And beatificate A simple digamma in Homer.'
Un fol enseigne bien un sage. A fool has a lot to teach a wise man.
It is only in science, I find, that we can get outside ourselves. It's realistic, and to a great degree verifiable, and it has this tremendous stage on which it plays. I have the same feelingto a certain degreeabout some religious expressionsbut only to a certain degree. For me, the proper study of mankind is science, which also means that the proper study of mankind is man.
ThepoorestHethat isinEnglandhathalifetoliveaswellas the greatest He, and therefore, truly Sirs,Ithink that every man that is to live under a Government ought first, by his own consent, to put himself under that Government.
Modest? My word, no He was an all-the-lights-on man.
Ballard admitted he was no hand at giving descriptions; the man was apparentlya gentleman and the woman well, not exactlya lady, although shehad a very fine flow of language.
Deux me' tresou un peu plusse parent donc l'homme de la femme. Two metres, or a little more, separates a man from a woman.
The Man Who Died Twice.
The typical entrepreneur is no longer the bold and tireless man of Marshall, or the sly and rapacious Moneybags of Marx, but a mass of inert shareholders, indistinguishable from rentiers, who employ salaried managers to run their concerns.
Mr Speaker,Ithink thenoble young manhas no business to make anyapology. He is a gentleman, and none such should be asked to make an apology, because no gentleman could mean to give offence.
Were I (who to my loss already am One of those strange prodigious creatures, Man) A spirit, free to choose for my own share What case of flesh and blood I'd choose to wear, I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear.
Birds feed on birds, beasts on each other prey, But savage man alone does man betray.
To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind.
Tell me, frankly, what ought to remain of Lenin: an art bronze, oil portraits, etchings, watercolours, his secretary's diary, his friends'memoirs or a file of photographs taken of him at work and rest, archives of his books, writing pads, notebooks, shorthand reports, films, phonograph records? I don't think there's any choice. Art hasno place inmodernlife Everycultured modern man must wage war against art, as against opium. Photograph and be photographed!
To boldly go where no man has gone before.
Ibet you if Ihad met himand had a chat with him,Iwould have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I didn't like.
Whena mangoesinforpolitics over here, hehasnotime to labour, and any man that labours has no time to fool with politics.Over there, politics is an obligation; over here it's a business.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who hasnever learned towalk forwards. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air.
Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.
A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no manwould be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
The only thing I can sayabout W C Fields, whom I have admired since the day he advanced upon Baby LeRoy with an ice pick, is this: any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
A Jewish manwith parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
My Life as a Man.
If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game In a world haunted by thehydrogenand napalm bomb, thefootball field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.
L'homme est ne libre, et partout il est dans les fers. Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains.
L'e ducation de l'homme commence a' sa naissance; avant de parler, avant que d'entendre, il s'instruit de ja' . A man's education begins when he is born; before speaking, before understanding, he is already teaching himself.
J'aime mieux e" tre homme a' paradoxes qu'homme a' pre juge s. I would rather be a man of paradoxes than of prejudices.
C'est dans le c½ur de l'homme qu'est la vie du spectacle de la nature; pour le voir, il faut le sentir. The spectacle of nature is in the heart of a man; to see it, he must feel it.
L'homme dit ce qu'il sait, la femme dit ce qui pla|"t. A man says what he knows, a woman says what pleases.
War, then, is not a relationship between man and man, but between State and State, in which private persons are only enemies accidentally.
The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.
You cankeep thethings of bronze and stoneand give me one man to remember me just once a year.
Fineart isthat inwhichthe hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
It ought to be quite as natural and straightforward a matter for a labourer to take his pension from his parish, because he has deserved well of his parish, as for a man in higher rank to take his pension from his country, because he has deserved well of his country.
You hear of me, among others, as a respectable architectural man-milliner; and you send for me, that I 704 may tell you the leading fashion.
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.
L'homme, c'est ce qui est, non point ce qui s'exprime. Man is who he is, not how he expresses himself.
You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
'But why should you want to shield him?'cried Egbert; 'the man is a common murderer.' 'A common murderer, possibly, but a very uncommon cook.'
(All the coaches shall be scrap and rust and all the men and women laughing in the diners and sleepers shall pass to ashes.) I ask a man in the smoker where he isgoing and he answers: 'Omaha'.
The Daring Young Man on the FlyingTrapeze.
L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion.
Est-ce qu'au fond, ce qui fait peur, dans la doctrine que je vais essayer de vous exposer, ce n'est pas le fait qu'elle laisse une possibilite de choix a' l'homme? For at bottom, what is alarming in the doctrine that I am about to try to explain to you isis it not?that it confronts man with a possibility of choice.
Qu'est-ce que signifie que l'existence pre ce' de l'essence? Cela signifie que l'homme existe d'abord, se rencontre, surgit dans le monde, et qu'il se de finit apre' s. What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? Wemeanthat manfirst of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the worldand defines himself afterwards.
L'homme n'est rien d'autre que ce qu'il se fait.Tel est le premier principe de l'existentialisme. Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself. That is the first principle of existentialism.
L'homme est condamne a' e" tre libre. Man is condemned to be free.
Un homme n'est rien d'autre qu'une se rie d'entreprises. A man is no other than a series of undertakings.
How right it seemed that he should reach the span Of comfortable years allowed to man! Splendid to eat and sleep and choose a wife, Safe with his wound, a citizen of life. He hobbled blithely through the garden gate, And thought: 'Thank God they had to amputate!'
A manmay be borna poet, but hehastomakehimself an artist as well.
Alle anderen Dinge mu« ssen; der Mensch ist das Wesen, welches will. All other things must; man is the being who wills.
Idon'tthink therewasevera piece of music thatchanged a man's decision on how to vote.
This pretty ring I will give it to the first man who tells me he would like to be a woman. It is delightful to be a woman; but every man thanks the Lord devoutly that he isn't one.
Ihaveno doubtthat it ispossibletogiveanewdirectionto technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction.
When I was a young man, I wanted to be three things: I wanted to be the world's greatest horseman, the world's greatest economist, and the world's greatest lover. Unfortunately I never became the world's greatest horseman.
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand!
He that is without name, without friends, without coin, without country, is still at least a man; and he that has all these is no more.
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my cann, Come saddle my horses, and call up my man; Come open your gates, and let me gae free, I daurna stay langer in Bonny Dundee!
The hour's come, but not the man.
Be a good manbe virtuousbe religiousbe a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him.
All the resources of a superpower cannot isolate a man whohearsthevoiceoffreedom; avoicethat Iheard from the very chamber of my soul.
A man who has no office to go toI don't care who he isis a trial of which you can have no conception.
You're not a man, you're a machine.
It is easyterribly easyto shake a man's faith in himself.Totakeadvantage ofthattobreak a man'sspirit is devil's work.
Martyrdomthe only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
The only way forawomantoprovideforherselfdecently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.
Whena stupid manisdoing something heisashamedof, he always declares that it is his duty.
A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.
That damnable woman's trick of heaping obligations on a man, of placing yourself so entirelyand helplesslyat his mercy that at last he dare not take a step without running to you for leave. I know a poor wretch whose one desire in life is to run away from his wife. She prevents him by threatening to throw herself in front of the engine of the train he leaves her in. That is what all women do. If we try to go where you do not want us to go there is no law to prevent us; but when we take the first step your breasts are under our foot as it descends: your bodies are under our wheels as we start. No woman shall ever enslave me in that way.
In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine.
In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.
When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle-class unit.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying toadapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
I am sincere; and my intentions are perfectly honourable. I think you will accept the fact that I'm an Englishman as a guarantee that I am not a man to act hastily or romantically.
Nobodycansayaword against Greek: it stamps a manat once as an educated gentleman.
I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.
The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the righttoa child with the obligationto becometheservant of a man. 780
A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor. In the end you have to be content with his common humanity.
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?
[Lord Rosebery] was a man who never missed an occasion to let slip an opportunity.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
The discussion of any subject is a right that you have brought into the world with your heart and tongue. Resign your heart's blood before you part with this inestimable privilege of man.
Have you not heard When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindoo, His best friends hear no more of him?
He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.
The loathsome mask has fallen, the man remains Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed, but man Equal, unclassed, tribeless, and nationless, Exempt from awe, worship, degree, the king Over himself; just, gentle, wise: but man Passionless?no, yet free from guilt or pain, Which were, for his will made or suffered them, Nor yet exempt, though ruling them like slaves, From chance, and death, and mutability, The clogs of that which else might oversoar The loftiest star of unascended heaven, Pinnacled dim in the intense inane.
Wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities.
She was stricken with most obstinate love to a young man.
Come sleep,O sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low.
O wretched state of man in self-division!
Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.
Man's strength is but little, and futile his concerns.
Still falls the Rain Dark as the world of man, black as our loss Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails Upon the cross.
The sovereign'st thing that any man may have Is little to say, and much to hear and see.
Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigalityand misconduct. By what a frugal man annually saves he not onlyaffords maintenance to an additional number of productive handsbuthe establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.
The man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention. He generally becomes asstupidand ignorant asit ispossible for a human creature to become.
The quiet man is here to stay, and he's turning up the volume!
This rortie wretched city Sair come down frae its auld hiechts The hauf o't smug, complacent, Lost til all pride of race or spirit, The tither wild and rouch as ever In its secret hairt But lost alsweill, the smeddum tane, The man o'independent mind has cap in hand the day Sits on its craggy spine And drees the wind and rain That nourished all its genius Weary wi centuries This empty capital snorts like a great beast Caged in its sleep, dreaming of freedom.
Drinking the best tea in the world in an empty cricket groundthat, I think, is the final pleasure left to man.
In ten thousand years the Sierras Will be dryand dead, home of the scorpion. Ice-scratched slabs and bent trees. No paradise, no fall, Only the weathering land The wheeling sky, Man, with his Satan Scouring the chaos of the mind. Oh Hell!
You only have power over people so long as you do not take everything away from them. But when you have robbed man of everything, he is no longer in your pockethe is free.
Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.
One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.
Go West, young man, go West!
Show me a man who cares no more for one place than another, and I will show you in that same person one who loves nothing but himself. Beware of those who are homeless by choice.
You are old, Father William, the young man cried, The few locks which are left you are grey; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man, Now tell me the reason, I pray. See Carroll194:67.
The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.
Consider: only one bullet in ten thousand kills a man. Ask: was so much expenditure justified On the death of one so young and so silly Stretched under the olive trees,Oh, world,Oh, death?
Of all God's works, which do this world adorn, There is no one more fair and excellent, Then is mans body both for power and form, Whiles it is kept in sober government.
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washe' d it away; Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. 'Vain man,'said she,'that doest in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalise, For I my self shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wipe' d out likewise.' 'Not so,'quod I,'let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse your virtues rare shall eternise, And in the heavens write your glorious name. Where when as death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew.'
The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known. For a man by nothing is so well bewrayed, As by his manners.
What man that sees the ever-whirling wheel Of Change, the which all mortal things doth sway, But that thereby doth find, and plainly feel, How mutability in them doth play Her cruel sports, to many men's decay?
Homo liber de nulla re minus quam de morte cogitat; et ejus sapienta non mortis, sed vitae meditatio est. A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.
In vita itaque apprime utile est, intellectum seu Rationem, quantum possumus, perficere, et in hoc uno summa hominis felicitas seu beatitudo consistit; quippe beatitudo nihil aliud est, quam ipsa animi acquiescentia quae ex Dei intuitiva cognitione oritur. It is therefore extrememly useful in life to perfect as much as we can the intellect or reason, and of this alone doesthegreatest happiness or blessedness of man exist: for blessedness is nothing else than satisfaction of mind which arises from the intuitive knowledge of God.
L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes, c'est un e pisode dans celle des hommes. Love is the story of a woman's life, but onlyan episode in the life of a man.
As to woman's subjectionit is important to note that equal dominion isgiven to woman over every living thing, but not oneword issaidgiving mandominionover woman.
A busy manwho can keep up a daily journal resembles a Steel person preparing for bed with the shades up When such a man publishes parts of his journal, the reader must conclude he always knew the lights were on.
He may be more potent than any other man. The damnable iteration dayafter day of earnest conviction wears like the dropping of the water upon the stone.
Every man is the maker of his own fortune
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
I know thisa man got to do what he got to do.
All Americans believethat theyare bornfishermen.Fora man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.
It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
'Pray, my dear,'quoth my mother,'have you not forgot to wind up the clock?''Good G?'cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice at the same time,'Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?'
Whenever a man talks loudly against religion,always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions which have got the better of his creed.
It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates everything to itself, as proper nourishment; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand.
'There is no terror, brotherToby, in its looks, but what it borrowsfromgroans and convulsionsand theblowing of noses, and the wiping away of tears with the bottoms ofcurtains, ina dying man'sroomStrip itofthese, what is it?''Tis better in battle than in bed,'said my uncle Toby.
To saya man is fallen in love,or that he is deeply in love,or up to the ears in love,and sometimes even over head and ears in it,carries an idiomatical kind of implication, that love is a thing below a man:this is recurring again to Plato's opinion, which, with all his divinityship,I hold to be damnable and heretical:and so much for that. Let love therefore be what it will,my uncleToby fell into it.
Now hang it! quoth I, as I look'd towards the French coasta man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.
'A soldier,'cried my uncleToby, interrupting the corporal, 'isno more exempt fromsaying a foolishthing,Trim, than a man of letters.''But not so often, an'please your honour,'replied the corporal.
A mancannot dress,but hisideasgetcloath'datthesame time.
It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look hisneighbour inthe faceand see a mannot a colour.
To live out of doors with the woman a man loves is of all lives the most complete and free.
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords.
Each coming together of a man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.
'Before she came,'said a soldier,'there was cussin'and swearin', but after that it was 'oly as a church.' The most cherished privilege of the fighting man was abandoned for the sake of Miss Nightingale.
I would desire that every man would lay his hand on his heart, and consider seriously whether the beginnings of the people's happiness should be written in letters of blood.
The lawofthesurvival ofthefittest wasnot made by man and cannot be abrogated by man.We can only by interfering with it, produce the survival of the unfittest.
Every man desires to live long; but no manwould be old.
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
Hail fellow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.
Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran.
Glory to Man in the highest! for Man is the master of things.
No man at all can be living for ever, and we must be satisfied.
Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris. It is part of human nature to hate a man you have hurt.
Golf is in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotesself-restraint and affordsa chanceto play the man and act the gentleman.
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
I've heard the wolves scuffle, and said: So this Is man; sowhat better conclusion is there The day will not follow night, and the heart Of man has a little dignity, but less patience Than a wolf's, and a duller sense that cannot Smell its own mortality.
A sight to make an old man young.
Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new: That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do: For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heaven fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations'airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, Ulysses With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder-storm; Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle- flags were furled In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.
Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.
Man is the hunter; woman is his game: The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; They love us for it, and we ride them down.
Thou madest man, he knows not why, He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him: thou art just.
Man, her last work, who seemed so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.
Dost thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began And on a simple village green; Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star.
Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in. Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; 844 Ring in the Christ that is to be.
'Forward, the Light Brigade!' Was there a man dismayed? Not though the soldier knew In Memoriam A.H.H. Some one had blundered: Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered.
Ah God, for a man with heart, head, hand, Like some of the simple great ones gone For ever and ever by, One still strong man in a blatant land, Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocratone Who can rule and dare not lie.
And ah for a man to arise in me That the man I am may cease to be!.
For man is man and master of his fate.
Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.
To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and aimable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes man.
The woods decay, the woods decayand fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after manya summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world.
Man's word is God in man.
Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky! Ayoung man will be wiser byand by; An old man's wit may wander ere he die.
The greater man, the greater courtesy.
Homo sum: nihil humani a me alienum puto. I am a man, I regard nothing that is human alien to me.
'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harryevery man of every nation has done that'tis the living up to it that is difficult.
'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
Whenever he met a great man he grovelled before him, Thackeray and my-lorded him as onlya free-born Briton can do.
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
Man be my metaphor.
The joy and function of poetry is, and was, the celebration of man, which is also the celebration of God.
A libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen bya man who should never have attempted it.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Unless [artists] can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
The old man puffed into sight like a venerable battlewagon pressing up over the horizon. First a smudge of smoke, then the long cigar, then the familiar, stoop-shouldered hulk that a generation has come to know as the silhouette of greatness.
From this foul drain the greatest stream of human industry flows out to fertilize the whole world. From this filthy sewer pure gold flows. Here humanity attains its most complete development and its most brutish, here civilizationworks its miracles and civilized man isturned almost into a savage.
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible meansexcept by getting off his back.
He was the type of man who was always trying to live beyond his moral means.
As for conceit, what man will do any good who is not conceited? Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you much at your own reckoning.
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him he is not.
Look at me! Look at myarm! I have plowed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head meand ar'n't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man (when I could get it), and bear de lash as welland ar'n't I a woman? I have borne thirteenchilernandseen'emmos'allsoldoff intoslavery, and when I cried out with a mother's grief, none but Jesus heardand ar'n't I a woman?
Well-a-well, man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble, as the Scripture says.
[He] reckoned a body could reform the old man with a shotgun, maybe, but he didn't know no other way.
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes.Or needs to.
Dieu cre a l'homme, et ne le trouvant pas assez seul, il lui donne une compagne pour lui faire mieux sentir sa solitude. God created man and, finding him not sufficientlyalone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.
Oh,iftheQueenwereaman,shewouldliketogoandgive those Russians, whose word one cannot believe, such a beating! We shall never be friends again till we have it out.
It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss.
The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.
The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else.But the fact is, you got to give 'em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
The century on which we are entering, the century that will come out ofthiswar, can be and must be the century of the common man.
He [BrighamYoung] is dreadfully married. He's the most married man I ever saw in my life.
Cricket is the greatest game that the wit of man has yet devised.
I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man's failures.
The poemis a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we seeit is, rather, a light by which we may seeand what we see is life.
Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow room. See Connolly 233:82, Orwell 628:52.
Capital accounting in its formally most rational shapepresupposes the battle of man with man.
See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.
For your names Of whores and murderers, they proceed from you, As if a man should spit against the wind; The filth returns in's face.
Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe.
The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Once they heard someone call for 'Snooks'.'I always thought that name was invented by novelists,'said Miss Winchelsea.'Fancy! Snooks. I wonder which is Mr. Snooks?' Finally they picked out a stout and resolute little man in a large check suit.'If he isn't Snooks, he ought to be,'said Miss Winchelsea.
I have been told, both in approval and accusation, that I seemto loveall mycharacters.What Idoinwriting of any character istotry toenter intothemind, heart and skinof a human being who is not myself.Whether this happens to be a man ora woman, old or young, with skin blackor white, the primary challenge lies in making the jump itself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set most high.
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
The imitator is a poor kind of creature. If the man who paints only the tree, or a flower, or other surface he sees beforehimwereanartist, thekingof artistswould be the photographer.
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the by-laws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.
A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudistnothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin.
Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of his agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent and uncertain But there can be no doubt as to the elements in the record that have evoked the best in human nature. The Mother, the Child and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self- forgetful, with his message of peace, love and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.
I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.
Camarado, this is no book, Who touches this touches a man.
When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before, What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich Pumpkin pie?
When faith is lost, when honor dies, The man is dead!
The moral life of man forms part of the subject matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
:The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. : It ends with Revelations.
A man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
: I think Jack, for instance, a charming name. :Jack? No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations I have known several Jacks, and theyall, without exception, weremore than usually plain. Besides,Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment's solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!
Manners makyth man.
It haunts me, the passage of time. I think time is a mercilessthing.Ithink life is a process of burning oneself out and timeisthefirethat burnsyou.But Ithink thespirit of man is a good adversary.
I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.
There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there issuch a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.
He felt like a manwho, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.
Gentleness, docility, and a spaniel-like affection are, on this ground, consistently recommended as the cardinal virtues of the sex; and, disregarding the arbitrary economy of nature, one writer has declared that it is masculine for a woman to be melancholy. She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears, whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.
So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball.
Women have served all these centuries as looking- glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.
The thought of death sits easy on the man Who has been born and dies among the mountains.
There's not a man That lives who hath not known his god-like hours.
My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.
Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out By help of dreamscan breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man My haunt, and the main region of my song.
Practically every man feels that there is in womanan element of unreason which, when you come upon it, summarily puts an end to purely intellectual intercourse.
It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity.
The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves, The brilliant moon and all the milky sky, And all that famous harmony of leaves, Has blotted out man's image and his cry.
A starlit or a moonlit dome disdains All that man is, All mere complexities The fury and the mire of human veins.
Givea manthesecure possessionof a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' lease on a garden, and he will convert it into a desert The magic ofturns sand to gold.
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