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We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- Erica Jong
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Learning never exhausts the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
- Lao Tzu
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely
only after they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Knowledge talks, Wisdom listens.
- Anonymous
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding
and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
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