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

If a man comes up to me, I'm almost sure he's going to mention Rome, if it's a woman, it'll be 'Grey's Anatomy.' — Kevin McKidd

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

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

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

No man who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do. — William Levitt

A man who loves money is a bastard, someone to be hated. A man who can't take care of it is a fool. You don't hate him, but you got to pity him. — Stephen King

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

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society. — B.R. Ambedkar

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

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it. — Israel Zangwill

In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job. — P. J. O'Rourke

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

I aspire to be
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild youth. — Atticus Poetry

Maybe only those who faced death daily were able to recognize that courages could be as quiet as a man's thoughts — Lorraine Heath

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

A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom. — Dorothy Dunnett

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

He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete. — Jane Austen

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

I've never even been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am. — Chavela Vargas

There is only room in a relationship for one person to be dramatic. That person cannot be the man. — Gwynneth Mary Lovas

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

If it has to be done, a man - a real man - shoots his own dog himself; he doesn't hire a proxy who may bungle it. — Robert A. Heinlein

Understand [this], my beloved brethren. Let every man be quick to hear [a ready listener], slow to speak, slow to take offense and to get angry. — Anonymous

Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics ... Religion is merely a matter between man and God. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Watching you has taught me that a man need not be weak to have a faith, but is made strong by it. — Roseanna M. White

A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized. — John Barrymore

No man has the courage to approach her or initiate questions she herself rise, for all men fear a fascist and she can very well be a fascist's wife. — Mie Hansson

If a man wishes to be sure of the road he's traveling on, then he must close his syes and travel in the dark. — San Juan De La Cruz

Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man. — Germaine Greer

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did. — Elizabeth Kolbert

I haven't figured out why people like what they like. I don't know. I wish I did. I could sell that to everybody, man, and be a millionaire. — Jason Aldean

...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 doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him. — Aesop

A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort. — George Jean Nathan

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it. — Laurence Sterne

For it is possible for a man to be faithful and lazy at the same time. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The eyes might be the windows to the soul, but a man's hips were his seat of power. — Tiffany Reisz

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing. — Ovid

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are. — Charles Caleb Colton

I'm always striving to be a better man to God, a better husband, a better Dad so it's just work, but I'm committed to it. — Andre Ward

I am bold to say that, if a man be destitute of the grace of God, his works are only works of slavery; he feels forced to do them. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When one man becomes more important than the country he's supposed to be leading, this will always create a problem. — Martina Navratilova

There's many a man who never tells his adventures, for he can't hope to be believed. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed. — Eduard Shevardnadze

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. — Ragnar Galt

a man will never choose to be healed from his blindness until he first realizes he cannot see. — Randall Arthur

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. — Bertrand Russell

that deed and word should be in accord, that a man should be equal to himself under all conditions, and always the same. — Seneca.

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men. — Amy Lowell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(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

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

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

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

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

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'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

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

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

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

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

I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us? — Sarah Michelle Gellar

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

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

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

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

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