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But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
As fits the holy Christmas birth, Be this, good friends, our carol still Be peace on earth, be peace on earth, To men of gentle will.
The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.
Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.
In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat.
And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.
No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.
Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .
The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
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.
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circustance.
I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip.
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
More men would be treated like kings if they would only treat their wives like queens instead of servants.
Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane!
Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers, he looks for others abroad.
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.
Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion
Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.
There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.
The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.
Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.
Women have a genius for love; men can only learn the art indifferently.
The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.
Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.
A man with God is always in the majority.
The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
You make me want to be a better man.
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
