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I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
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The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Random chance seems to have operated in our favor ...
there was no deity involved.
- Spock character in the Star Trek television series
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I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons
out of the hands of fools.
Let's start with typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary;
new, universal, and more liberal laws
will begin to establish themselves around and within him;
or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor
in a more liberal sense,
and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.
- Henry David Thoreau
No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
If Hitler invaded hell
I would make at least a favorable reference
to the devil in the House of Commons.
- Winston Churchill
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
I hate the giving of the hand
unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
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
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels
from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved
by the person whom he entirely loves.
- Joseph Addison
The healthy man does not torture others -
generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
- Carl Jung
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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