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I began to feel like a kept man and it felt great. — Charles Bukowski

What was creepier, a man who loved clip-on ties or a girl who kept a log of fantasy fathers hidden in her desk drawer? — Ruta Sepetys

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job. — Charles Bukowski

What treaties that the whites have kept, that the red man broken?
Not one.
What treaties that the white man gave to us they kept?
Not one. — Sitting Bull

Another promise made by a man who'd kept too few. — Kristin Hannah

It was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer. — Martha Ostenso

Be cheerful, also, and seek not external help, nor the peace which others give. A man must stand straight, and not be kept straight by others. — Marcus Aurelius

Butch didn't live in his own place. He didn't spend his own money. He had no job, no future. He was a well-kept pet, not a man. — J.R. Ward

[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him. — Louisa May Alcott

Love is the fart
Of every heart
It pains the man when 'tis kept close,
And others doth offend, when 'tis let loose. — John Suckling

I survived because I had trained my heart to do the same: survive. Becoming an Ironman had kept me from becoming a dead man. — Matt Long

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others. — Marcus Aurelius

The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. — William Wordsworth

The overworked man was tired of everything, and he only kept going because he had long since forgotten that life could consist of anything else. — Jonas Jonasson

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive. — Emil Cioran

She said she married an architect, who kept her warm and safe and dry. She would like to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie. — Dan Fogelberg

I kept replaying it. That moment when you let me. Couldn't add and subtract worth a dime. I'm sure I overpaid the man. — C.D. Reiss

Man,poor guy.I kept ruining his afterlives. — Kiersten White

The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense. — Charles Dickens

Twas hard to dislike a man she so enjoyed in bed. Twas harder still to dislike one who kept showing her a more gentle side to his nature — Johanna Lindsey

Our two postcard hearts were frightened in unison under the tenacious look of the unfathomable old man who kept on eating one banana after another — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick. — Benjamin Disraeli

He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive. — Angela Carter

A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius

I once felt bad because I had no shoes, and then I met a man who had no feet. He was wearing an ankle bracelet that kept falling off. — Dana Gould

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one. — Sitting Bull

Unlike most people, I kept my mouth shut about the man I was living with. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

It was never in my heart to slight any man, but only that man should be kept in his place and not sit in the room of God. — Anne Hutchinson

Every ransomed man owes his salvation to the fact that during his days of sinning, God kept the door of mercy open. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

That's what I said. There's no peace to disturb. I kept telling the cop: No. Peace. To. Disturb. Man. — Jandy Nelson

... Shannon's fingers itched to smash the man in the face. Inside his head he kept telling himself,
Keep cool, baby, absolutely cool. — Frederick Forsyth

My dad is a man that, for as long as I can remember, has kept a book of favorite things his kids say. — Nikki Reed

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. — Desiderius Erasmus

There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear. — Henry David Thoreau

The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition. — Gordon Parks

Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. — Nirmalananda

If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been. — Susan B. Anthony

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it — Andrew Carnegie

Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more. — James Thurber

It has been said that it's hard to stop a man who knows he's in the right and just keeps on coming. Smoke knew he was right - and he kept on coming. — William W. Johnstone

A man kept his character even when he was insane. — Graham Greene

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer. — George Eliot

The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred — C.S. Lewis