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Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's. — William Blake

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains. — Maxim Gorky

A girl with plenty to do is sure to draw the interest of a man who's worth knowing. Be sure to get a hobby girls. — Barbara Jean Coast

If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man. — Marat Safin

A man who has faith must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. — G.K. Chesterton

I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man. — Mamie Van Doren

A man should be proud of his heritage - not arrogant, as if it made him superior, but happy to own it and live up to the best in its promise. Monk — Anne Perry

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing. — Sydney J. Harris

Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman. — Guillermo Del Toro

Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does. — Plutarch

These tears need to be shed, wept into the earth where there is no hope of consolation. Sometimes a man has to cry alone. — Edmond Manning

After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play. When I am in the Socratic — Winston S. Churchill

I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior. — Hedy Lamarr

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point. — George Eliot

It's better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can't be yours, then never to love at all. — Eloisa James

That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume. — Charles Caleb Colton

Don't you see? I can't ever be normal again. Never be the kind of man who can give you a real home - " "I — Skye Warren

A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong. — Michael Faraday

I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law. — Michele Bachmann

Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

I moved to Los Angeles to be with a man I loved. — Cat Power

A wise man can be a fool in love. — Chetan Bhagat

Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo — Victor Hugo

What will a man gain by winning the whole world, at the cost of his true self? — Jesus

A man must be quite intelligent in order to accept that a woman is his intellectual equal. — Dora Musielak

For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and, withdrawing them, find 'tis better to be a commander than a common man! — Bartholomew Roberts

Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic. — Lee Kuan Yew

I can't get her pregnant! I'm just thirteen. You have to be a man to get a girl pregnant. — Scylar Tyberius

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it. — John Masefield

If a woman defined herself solely by the man she was with - and vice versa - the world would be a very shallow and insipid place, indeed. — Nenia Campbell

Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books. — Markus Zusak

How? Well, if a girl has had enough of every man who exists, her only remaining desire could be for a man who doesn't exist at all ... — Italo Calvino

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood. — Edmund Burke

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything. — James Boswell

If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be. — Viktor E. Frankl

One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier. — Gustave Flaubert

I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary. — Peter O'Toole

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them. — Phyllis Bottome

A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

He who would weigh well and rightly his own doings would not be the man to judge severely of another. — Thomas A Kempis

Was Christ a man like us?-Ah! let us try If we then, too, can be such men as he! — Matthew Arnold

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad. — Thomas Hobbes

(Emerson's) aphorisms tend to be chicken soup for the academic soul or gobledygook of a man who prefers the sounds of words to their meanings. — Micah Mattix

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned. — Akkineni Nagarjuna

I may be a simple man, but I am very good with an axe. — Daniel H. Wilson

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman. — Samuel Johnson

The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made Higher and broader, or he will hardly get in. — Thomas Adams

And atop the wolf, looking as dignified and butlerlike as might be possible for a man riding a werewolf, was Floote. Alexia — Gail Carriger

Being a leading man ... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen. — Steve Carell

...There is no worse way to abuse a man's patriotism than to estrange him from his homeland, be it his ancestral or adopted land... — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so. — John Milton

A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be. — Henry Ward Beecher

In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues. — George Eliot

There must be a time of day when the man who makes plans forgets his plans, and acts as if he had no plans at all. — Thomas Merton

There's something animalistic about this man. Something I want to be a part of. Something I want to be included in. He's a force of nature. — Belle Aurora

This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I wondered who would teach me, or if a boy could learn on his won, what it means to be a man. — Lori Lansens

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension. — Marilynne Robinson

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time. — Francis Bacon

It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket. — Arthur Smith

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria. — Robert M. Hutchins

Character is what is hidden deep, shows up in the worst of times, be it good or bad, and reflects the heart of a man. — Robin M. Bertram

There wasn't any limit, no boundary at all, to the future. And it would be so a man wouldn't have room to store his happiness. — John Steinbeck

If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself. — Horace Pippin

God has blessed man with seed that has the highest potency and woman with a field richer than the richest earth to be found anywhere on his globe. — Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words.
A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions! — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be. — James M. Barrie

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human. — Charles Wagner

But a man like that deserved to never be thought of again. Why couldn't he have just stayed buried? No good had come of this. — Sarah Addison Allen

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room. — Blaise Pascal

A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen. — Steve Guttenberg

Better to be the hireling of a stranger, and serve a man of mean estate whose living is but small, than be the ruler over all these dead and gone. — Homer

Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man. — Samuel Smiles

An honest man and an honest woman may be insulted, but to tell a thief he's a thief is simply la constatation d'un fait. — Leo Tolstoy

Of course the servants had chosen not to follow me; I'd failed them already by refusing to be a man they could believe in. — Megan Whalen Turner

Chuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is very special. — Tom Heinsohn

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated. - from 'Cows in Art Class — Charles Bukowski

But a man's walking-around body can be a ghost a whole lot easier than his spirit can. — Sarah Porter

In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends? — Robert Louis Stevenson

I knew that a man was not only himself but also who he wished to be. — Stephanie Dray

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. — Mahatma Gandhi

A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange! — Charles Dickens

People aren't hiring me to be a 'yes' man. They have their girlfriends for that. — Brad Goreski

A man may not fear to die, and yet be appalled by the form in which death comes to him. — Rafael Sabatini

There can be no more noble a quest than a man seeking to rescue his beloved. — Liesel Schwarz

Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture. — Arthur Helps

Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret. — Anthony Trollope

It is also to be noticed, that the old man is distinguished by his works, as a tree is by its fruits. — John Calvin

Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough. — Larry David

If you men only knew how we love a man who can be just a woman to us sometimes! — Ellen Buckingham Mathews

A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth. — Mahatma Gandhi

For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible. — George Herbert

If a man took a lover it would be accounted commonplace. Why shouldn't you? Your virtue lies in your mind, not in what lies between your legs. — Lauren Willig

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive, he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else. — Orison Swett Marden

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone. — Harry S. Truman

If a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small. — G.K. Chesterton