Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman.
Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.
The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.
Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.
A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.
A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.
If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.
There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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.
For many people it is depressing even to move house. A lost fragment of life always remains. To move to another town, settle in a foreign country, is for everyone a major decision. But, to be suddenly driven forth, within twenty-four hours, from one'...
A silent Library is a Library. A Library without patrons on whom to pile books and tales and knowing and magazines full of up-to-the-minute politickal fashions and atlases and plays in pentameter! A Library should be full of exclamations! Shouts of d...
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the Democratic Party had failed (in 1983) 'to remember waht got us this far and how we got here -- moral indignation, decent instincts, a sense of shared sacrifice and mutual responsibility, and a set of national priorities that emphasized what we ha...
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