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It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

Norman Douglas

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound

A good artist should laugh often!

The Old Man Mad about Drawing: A Tale of Hokusai

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Gerald Brenan

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

Rod McKuen

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

Mahatma Gandhi

If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

Larry Elder

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Jean de La Fontaine

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

Pearl S. Buck

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.

Earl Wilson

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

Marlo Thomas

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein.

Gregory Peck

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Logan Pearsall Smith

A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.

Tamara Mellon

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Theodore Roosevelt

I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.

F. Lee Bailey

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

Jimmy Carter

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Samuel Johnson

I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.

Sam Phillips

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Emily Dickinson