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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient.
It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman
in the midst of this world,
where each person is clinging to his piece of debris?
What's the proper salutation between people
as they pass each other in this flood?
- The Buddha
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
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The postman wants an autograph.
The cab driver wants a picture.
The waitress wants a handshake.
Everyone wants a piece of you.
- John Lennon
I put a piece of paper under my pillow,
and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
- Henry David Thoreau
Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When someone you love dies,
you don't lose them all at once.
You lose them in pieces over time
- the movie Simon Birch
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is a truth universally acknowledged that
when one part of your life starts going okay,
another falls spectacularly to pieces.
- the movie Bridget Jones Diary
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful
than Thor with his hammer.
The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
- Henry David Thoreau
I would never want to be a member of a group
whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
- George Carlin
Time to Die:
A Zen teacher had a rare and priceless teacup.
One day, his precocious student accidentally broke the cup.
Hearing the footsteps of his teacher,
the student held the pieces of the cup behind his back.
When the master appeared, he asked: "Why do people have to die?"
"This is natural," explained the teacher.
"Everything has to die and has just so long to live."
The student showed the shattered cup, saying,
"It was time for your cup to die."
- Traditional Zen Koan
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men
is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Women want mediocre men,
and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead
Love men and women not for their strength
but their softness,
not for their fullness but their hunger,
not for their plenty but their need.
- Anais Nin
(paraphrase)
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
Little do men perceive what solitude is,
and how far it extendeth.
For a crowd is not company,
and faces are but a gallery of pictures,
and talk but a tinkling cymbal,
where there is no love.
- Francis Bacon
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil.
If they would only expend the same
amount of energy loving their fellow men,
the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
- Helen Keller
It takes time to persuade men to do even
what is for their own good.
- Thomas Jefferson
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every creature is better alive than dead,
men and moose and pine trees,
and he who understands it aright
will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
- Henry David Thoreau
The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood
between sincere men of all denominations.
- Helen Keller
Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger men.
- John F. Kennedy
There is a good ear, in some men,
that draws supplies to virtue
out of very indifferent nutriment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
In every society some men are born to rule,
and some to advise.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
It's not the men in your life that counts,
it's the life in your men.
- Mae West, in the movie I'm No Angel
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous
I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Habits age men before their time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
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