Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
A fire will sear and the sun burn yet more, but neither can match the ardor of a man's heart.
A man finds what he takes to be small; it will only be big again when he loses it.
Humor to a man is like a feather pillow. It is filled with what is easy to get but gives great comfort.
If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
The lazy man who goes to borrow a spade says, "I hope I will not find one.".
Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.
The man being carried does not realize how far away the town really is.
Throw a lucky man in the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.
Three things it is best to avoid: a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise.
A man comes from the dust and in the dust he will end--and in the meantime it is good to drink a sip of vodka.
The best horse needs a whip, intelligent men need advice, and devout women need a man.
If you praise the man who taps the palm tree, he'll put water in the palm wine.
I would take them a few times, feel my emotions and sense of reality fuzz, and look at my mother who had been doped up on them since we moved to Chattanooga. I would see her blank, hazel eyes, and her bright, but empty, smile with chronic, artificial...
Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts of alms, but if any good man or any good woman awakens the thought of Enlightenment and takes even only four lines from this Discourse, reciting, using...
Just say it, she thought. Say what everyone in this bunker is thinking. Say what we all know to be true. The truth that we are all going to die down here, and death is the end. Nobody wakes up to a heaven or paradise. Your life will be gone. You will...
If we lived for ever, what you say would be true. But we have to die, we have to leave life presently. Injustice and greed would be the real thing if we lived for ever. As it is, we must hold to other things, because Death is coming. I love death - n...
We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need not believe we must somehow earn good erotic care; we always deserved it. Femaleness and its sexuality are beautiful. Women have long secret...
How are you feeling, man?" he asks me. "Great," I tell him, and it is purely the truth. Doves clatter up out of a bare tree and turn at the same instant, transforming themselves from steel to silver in the snow-blown light. I know at that moment that...
THE MYTH OF THE GOOD OL BOY AND THE NICE GAL The good of boy myth and the nice gal are a kind of social conformity myth. They create a real paradox when put together with the "rugged individual" part of the Success Myth. How can I be a rugged individ...
