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What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse. — Angelus Silesius

We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more. — Pindar

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true. — Oscar Wilde

If man understood that "what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating" then he wouldn't be so afraid of what others are doing. — Esther Hicks

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. — Albert Camus

Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good. — Eliphas Levi

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. — Mark Twain

What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity. — Seneca The Younger

What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man? — Chanakya

One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read
what not to see or what not to listen to. — Ezra Taft Benson

You wish for what's called wooing. This customary game, where the man shows the woman that resistance is impractical, strikes me as quite pointless. — Tara West

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him. — Seneca The Elder

Man creates what he is. — Paul Tillich

There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen. — Marcus Aurelius

What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit! — William Shakespeare

What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers. — Albert Einstein

I don't think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it. — Robert Creeley

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable. — Seneca The Younger

A man who knows what it is to have humility is a vain man. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

What is the real breath of a man - the breathing out or the breathing in? — Margaret Atwood

A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things. — William Hazlitt

What is a man anyhow? what am I? what are you? — Walt Whitman

It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. — Ezra Taft Benson

Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been. — Louis Gustave Vapereau

The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know. — Lao-Tzu

Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Man was engaged in a mad scramble for power and knowledge, but nowhere is there any hint of what he meant to do with it once he had attained it. He — Clifford D. Simak

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

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be. — Holbrook Jackson

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves. — Anais Nin

The mark of an honest man ... is that he means what he says and knows what he means. — Ayn Rand

Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use. — Peter Latham

What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot today? — Henry David Thoreau

I hate when people say "quote" when what they really mean is "quotation." How's that for a quote? — Man Martin

What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it. — Cesar Chavez

What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman. — Charles Bukowski

The stars once spoke to man. It is world destiny that they are silent now, but in their silence there grows and ripens what man speaks to the stars! — Rudolf Steiner

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

The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence. — Steve Berry

can't help but think once again what a foolish, loutish creature is man. Is there another on earth that kills for the pure joy of it? — Jim Fergus

Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted. — Eva Figes

But this is what disturbs me: if there is no God, then, the question is, who is in control of man's life and the whole order of things on earth? — Mikhail Bulgakov

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man. — Napoleon Bonaparte

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief. — Benjamin Disraeli

The measure of a man is what happens when nothing works and you got the guts to go on. — Randall "Tex" Cobb

Question: What do you get the man who has everything? Answer: a concious. That guy is so greedy. — Demitri Martin

Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not. — G.I. Gurdjieff

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. — Frederick William Faber

Never mind what my name is," the man said. "No one can pronounce it anyway. Just call me Sir. — Lemony Snicket

He was a fine man, my dear, but what is better, he was a brave and an honest one, and I was proud to be his friend. — Louisa May Alcott

What risk to a common man is an opportunity for a wise — Ratan Jeet

What Is Prayer? Prayer is man giving God the legal right and permission to interfere in earth's affairs. — Myles Munroe

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints. — Pablo Picasso

Time does not heal all wounds; if a man is not careful, time erases wounds. Then what is he left with? The cold and the silence. — Doug Rice

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep. — Joseph De Maistre

Love is what stands in the way of self discovery, try not to find, it will find you. — Auliq Ice

What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree. — Alice Hoffman

If man could do what in his wildest self-worship he can imagine, the grand result would be that he would be his own God, which is the Hell of Hells. — George MacDonald

Poor is the man whom is not content with what he has. — Rita Gonzalez

In the view of the wise, Heaven is man and Earth woman: Earth fosters what Heaven lets fall. — Erich Fromm

When a man is attacked in print, it's usually for saying what he says; when a woman is attacked in print, it's often for being who she is. — Margaret Atwood

A man is not known by what he wears but only when the society undresses him. — Amit Abraham

What is the true cost of a man's mistakes? — Jonathan Hickman

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask. — Alan Moore

What is it about you Keira, that has a man wanting to fuck you senseless into submission one minute and strangle the breath from your body the next? — Stephanie Hudson

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

Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do unto others what he would have them do to him. — Anthony Eden

Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control. — Mike Norton

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

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness. — James Anthony Froude

The cross has two sides to it. One side is what Jesus did for us. He forgave us our sins. The other is the God side. God now lives in man! — John Paul Warren

It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world. — Richard Eberhart

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

Worry is to human beings ... what a condom is to a man with erectile dysfunction. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

After all, what is man but a hoard of ghosts? Oaks, that were acorns, that were oaks ... — Walter De La Mare

A man ought to do what he thinks is right — John Wayne

When a man's faith is never tried, I don't think he'll ever learn anything. You have to have trial and tribulation, or what are you going to learn? — McCoy Tyner

If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology. — Herbert Marcuse

HEB13.6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. — Anonymous

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. — Samuel Johnson

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see ... — Orlando Aloysius Battista

What is one man's gain is another's loss. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after. — Watchman Nee

Nobody knows what anything is; a man can only learn what a thing means! — George MacDonald

What a man is on his knees before God, that he is, and nothing more. — Robert Murray McCheyne

What is of man uses manipulation to conform. What is of #God uses implantation to transform. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian! — Michel De Montaigne

A man knows what he likes, so sex with some men is like sex with a mind reader, someone who knows exactly how you like it. — J.L. King

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen. — Charles Lamb

What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does. — Gene Wolfe

We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage. — Henry Ford

Man in a word has no nature; what he has..is history. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments. — Tamara Ecclestone

The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth. — Samuel Johnson

What you call man is time. — Terence McKenna

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

No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves. — Bram Stoker