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feel that, however steady a man is, if he has an unstable wife to whom he is devoted, then there is a corrosion at work on his own foundations. — Winston Graham

Until a man is struck in his own face he does not want to believe the attack on his brother concerns him. — Leon Uris

The spirit of commerce ... renders every man willing to live on his own property ... & prevents the growth of luxury. — Baron De Montesquieu

Each man is forever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart. — Alexis De Tocqueville

This was the type of man who looked at a picture on the wall and instead of admiring the photo, looked at his own reflection in the glass. I — Ruta Sepetys

If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own. — Carter G. Woodson

When a man writes on a wall, his instinct leads him to write above the level of his own eyes. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Reason why scars form is to show that man can survive his own stupidity" Anastasius Focht talking to Phelan Kell on the Dire Wolf — Michael A. Stackpole

Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat — Terry Southern

There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own. — Dalton Trumbo

No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative. — Napoleon Hill

I don't want them to kill no hog ... I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet. — Thomas Jefferson

A man's principles are his own. Man starts flip-flopping on what he believes based on outside influences and he may as well run for congress. — J.J. Zep

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life. — Ayn Rand

There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs — Jose Saramago

To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own. — John Gray

A man making decisions on another man's life should have already made up his mind about his own. — Moe Cidaly

A Man lives off his head.
His head won't see him through.
Inspect your own
What lives on that?
At most, a louse or two ... — Bertolt Brecht

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. — John Keats

Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity. — Vincent Van Gogh

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others. — Jane Austen

A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does. — Will Rogers

That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face. — Thomas Adams

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it. — Samuel Johnson

He saw, on their faces, that stubbornly evasive look ... the look of a man cheating himself of his own consciousness. — Ayn Rand

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it. — Francis Crick

A MAN ON A CANE STILL STANDS ON HIS OWN TWO FEET! — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his. — Mahatma Gandhi

No man burns down his own house on the theory that the need to rebuild it will stimulate his energies. — Henry Hazlitt

A man might as well hope to fight a swarm of flies with a sword as to master his own thoughts when they are set on by the devil. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image. — Ludwig Feuerbach

Best to get it off his chest. Own up like a man. Take his medicine. Cards on table. Beating about bush, none of. Mercy, throw himself on. — Terry Pratchett

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife. — Theodore Roosevelt

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. — Oscar Wilde

No man can put on the robes of Christ's righteousness till he has taken off his own. — Charles Spurgeon

The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters. — Henry David Thoreau

I most certainly can kill someone for putting his hands on you. I am my own man. Don't ever forget that, Moira. — Sawyer Bennett

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain. — Robert Southey

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. — Theodor Adorno

The man who spends all his time on his own needs, who organizes every day as though it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the next day. — Seneca.

A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity. — Frederick Douglass

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. — Joseph Addison

Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you're out on your own. — Harold Wilson

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. — Dennis Gabor

Every man stamps his value on himself ... man is made great or small by his own will. — Friedrich Schiller

They say give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. But teach a man to fish and he'll get his own show on the Discovery Channel. — Craig Ferguson

A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane — Saadi

The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live. — John Eldredge

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level. — Ernest Becker

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain. — E.T.A. Hoffmann

She's got a way of making a man feel guilty for certain things he'd never feel bad about on his own, like watching someone shoot himself in the face. — Kevin Wilson

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks. — Douglas William Jerrold

[On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food. — Fannie Lou Hamer

It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances. — Joseph Addison

Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military. — Helmut Schmidt

The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress. — Idries Shah

A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others. — Zengzi

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. — Charles De Gaulle

Only man has become an outsider - and because of his own efforts. On his own, he has separated himself from existence. — Rajneesh