The fly has no pity for the thin man.
For a wise man a fool is a good advisor.
There is a pinch of the madman in every great man.
To question a wise man is the beginning of wisdom.
The spouse of a woman is a man, the spouse of a man is his livelihood.
A powerful man has big ears.
My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic.
God is the Man, and there's another Man, Stan 'The Man' Musial in St. Louis.
What they have is science, and in science only that which is subject to the senses. The spiritual world, on the other hand, the loftier half of the man's being, is rejected altogether, cast out with a certain triumph, hatred even. The world has procl...
Johnson's later life, from 1763, is among the best documented of all literary lives. James Boswell gave himself the enormous task, after Johnson's death in 1784, of producing what is now held to be a model of biography; rich in detail and anecdote, a...
Who did the council fight?" "It split in two and fought itself." "That's suicide!" "No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing what half the people do calmly in peace...
Brother Lawrence says, in , 'There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God. Those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it' (Letter 5). No one who has ever tried it has ...
Praise makes a bad man worse.
A wise man learns at the fool's expense.
A brave man seldom is hurt in the back.
The fool speaks, the wise man listens.
Every wise man is afraid of a fool.
There's a pinch of the madman in every great man.
An old man loved is winter with flowers.
When an old man marries, death laughs.
