The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.
The north wind has no corn and a poor man no friend.
I look at him with the nostalgic affection men are said to feel for their wars, their fellow veterans. I think, I once threw things at this man. I threw a glass ashtray, a fairly cheap one which didn't break. I threw a shoe (his) and a handbag (mine)...
Just because your electronics are better than ours, you aren't necessarily superior in any way. Look, imagine that you humans are a man in LA with a brand-new Trujillo and we are a nuhp in New York with a beat-up old Ford. The two fellows start drivi...
The filling of the Holy Spirit brings a sharp separation between the believer and the world. Actually, after Pentecost, they were looking at another world. They really saw another world. Nowadays, we perceive that even a large part of evangelical Chr...
When it shall be desired to enlighten man, let him always have truth laid before him. Instead of kindling his imagination by the idea of those pretended goods that a future state has in reserve for him, let him be solaced, let him be succoured; or, a...
A man is only as effective as the effect he has on his surroundings,' Gordon was saying. 'And if a man is not effective, if his very is as insubstantial as thought, then what is this man? Is he a man? Or is he merely the thought of a man?
A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?
Buggin' Out: You the man. Mookie: No you the man. Buggin' Out: You the man. Mookie: No you the man. Buggin' Out: No. I'm just a struggling Black man trying to keep my dick hard in a cruel and harsh world.
The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
A rich man loves to work, a poor man loves to eat.
A good man never makes excuses, a smart man is never in a position to need one.
Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence!
A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
I like a guy who is confident and easy-going, but a man who's a man, not a man who is a little boy. I like a man who is comfortable with himself.
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.
How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?
Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
He was a fine, tall, slim young fellow, with black eyes, and hair as dark as the raven’s wing; and his whole appearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger.
