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The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man. — Honore De Balzac

When a man faces his death, Impossible is less than a barrier. — Supreeth

Less real than such threats as a man with a gun, a woman with a knife, or a U.S. Senator with an idea. — Dean Koontz

Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself. — Robert Frost

The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span. — Francis Bacon

When you love, love as if the person is a god, not less than that. Never love a woman as a woman and never love a man as a man. — Osho

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life. — Baruch Spinoza

The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of honor than its conqueror. — J. Arthur Thomson

Nationality was - and is - far less a divide than age ... because "everything is global, man!" — Ben Dreyfuss

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him. — Louis L'Amour

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin. — Criss Jami

A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone. — Jonathan Swift

We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend. — Philibert Joseph Roux

I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out. — Johannes Tauler

The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea. — T.H. White

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied. — Alice James

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. — George Santayana

A man has a right to fear dangers that are less than likely to occur. — Milan Kundera

There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism. — Jacques Maritain

The average man is both better informed and less corruptible in the decisions he makes as a consumer than as a voter at political elections. — Ludwig Von Mises

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. — Joseph Addison

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. — Samuel Johnson

To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone. — William Faulkner

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man. — Walker Percy

I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made. — Thomas A. Edison

Once you know about these things, you will also love them, because you will see that without a sense of the sacred, you are less than a man. — Thomas Yellowtail

A man's love for a man is neither more nor less than a man's love for a woman, it is only different. — Thomas Burnett Swann

Much less than a man, a little bit more than a jackal! This is the person without compassion! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man. — Frank Herbert

I'd be alone the rest of my life before I'd settle for less than a man that flat out adored me. — R.K. Lilley

We have seen in this chapter how, in less than half a century, man's view of the universe, formed over millennia, has been transformed. — Stephen Hawking

When I was a child, I understood the things of my childhood. Now that I have grown into a man, I understand less of the world than I did as a lad. — Joel T. McGrath

He looked at the cop. He'd known the man less than a day, didn't trust him, and wasn't sure he much liked him. And this was who he'd die with. — James S.A. Corey

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The man has accumulated a repertoire of facial tics and blinks that demand nothing less than a complete musical score by Stravinsky. — Anonymous

I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay. — Clara Barton

Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window. — Jules Renard

You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it. — Stephen King

Mirrors at the gym only serve to remind me that I'm less of a man than I'd like to be. — Dov Davidoff

Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue. — Walter Raleigh

A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him. — Louis Mann

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man! — George Gamow

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman. — Richard Burton

The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it. — Genghis Khan

A wise man has more than he shows and tells less than he knows. — J. Helen Elza

Like me wanting to get nailed made me less of a man than him? That was bullshit. He seemed kind of sexist. I bet he was a fucking Republican. — Megan Erickson

I'm doing less than I used to because I'm a family man now, and I have two kids. — Paul Shaffer

When a man does not admit that he is an animal, he is less than an animal. Not more but less. — Michael McClure

Isolation is the cruelest of punishments, and it had never occurred to me that I was something less than human because I wasn't a man. — Patricia Cornwell

Catty is not cool. I can't think of anything less becoming than a man who talks about people behind their backs. — Meghan Markle

He would measure the world against the rigid grid of his heart and put each man in charge of a domain no more and no less than his just deserts. — Ken Liu

I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system. — Amory Lovins

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right. — Mike Singletary

The profligacy of a man of fashion is looked upon with much less contempt and aversion, than that of a man of meaner condition. — Adam Smith

Hell was never God's intention. It is man's invention. It is a human-manufactured religious icon, no less idolatrous than deifying a statue. — Carlton D. Pearson

A man who embraces the voice of evil when it whispers in his ear is no less evil than the whisperer. — Orson Scott Card

The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other mortals are completely mistaken. — Roald Amundsen

A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than
himself. — George MacDonald

There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing. — Baron De Montesquieu

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. — E.B. White

Perhaps because I refuse to be less than the other part of your soul, my lord." "And nothing challenges a man as much as the voice of his own soul. — Joey W. Hill

A man trusts his ears less than his eyes. — Herodotus

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever — Edmund Burke

I used to laugh at that old wheeze about a man wanting his son to be better than he was, but as I get older it seems less funny and more true. — Stephen King

A woman without a man
a condition of 'manlessness'
is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife. — Barbara Kingsolver

salvation is less like a good man becoming a saintly man than it is like a statue coming to life. — Louis Markos

Never prod at woman, unless you must, she will kill you faster than a man and for less reason. Even if she weeps over it after. — Robert Jordan

Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less than a man. — Agatha Christie

No net less wide than a man's whole heart, nor less fine of mesh than love, will hold the sacred Fish. — C.S. Lewis

As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids. — Olaf Stapledon