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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
I'm just here for good times, man. I want people to have the best time ever. Especially if they're around me.
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.
When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You don't mind going through a little bush to get there!
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.