Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whis is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?
Friedrich Nietzsche
A woman begins by resisting a man's advances, and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Benjamin Disraeli
Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
Frank Sinatra
To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.
Edgar Allan Poe
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.
William Shakespeare
O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.
William Shakespeare
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
Horace Mann
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty, it is it's own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is mans greatest power!
W. Clement Stone
The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.
Horace Greeley
Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.
Robert Byrne
Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
Robert Byrne
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
John Locke
The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
John Ruskin
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
William Cobbett
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
Lois McMaster Bujold
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
Cyril Connolly
He who marries a widow will often have a dead man's head thrown in his dish.
Spanish Proverb
Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.
Elvis Presley
Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp - or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning
A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor.
Charles Reade
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
Madame de Stael
A wise man's question contains half the answer.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
Robert Penn Warren
Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.
Henry David Thoreau
There is nothing much really to say about the man's death.
Steve Biko
A man's character is his fate.
Heraclitus
A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
Joseph Conrad
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
Neil Armstrong
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.
Auberon Herbert
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Arthur C. Clarke
Hope is the poor man's bread.
George Herbert
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
Daniel Webster
Honestly, the ladies who come in here generally work a little harder than the guys. Boxing is a man's world. The ladies who come in here want to show they belong, so their habits are generally more intense.
Carlos Duncan
There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
Bernard Malamud
Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
Ben Jonson
That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
John Webster
Had it not been for God's glory and this man's goodness, ... I would not be here.
Brian Clark
Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."
Bill Maher
He's a hiking legend in our club, considering the man's 62 and most people 20 years younger can't keep up. I can't. I can't even come close.
Bill Anning
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
Victor Borge
A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never reurn to it's original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Too much white man's stuff too fast. It's like eating a lot of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Heartburn avenue.
Randall Tetlichi
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Dr. Rollo May
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
Hosea Ballou
It is truly a shame that a man's ability to obtain justice relates to his financial ability.
Charles Plancon
The more older brothers a man has, the greater that man's chance of being gay.
Michael Bailey
One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.
Harold Wilson
There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.
Reginald Maudling
A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.
Thomas Brooks
There are more and more women competitors and handlers. In 1906 it was primarily a man's sport. It is now an all-round family activity.
Gerri Cadiz
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Romain Gary
People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.
Bob Edwards
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Charles Morgan
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
Bliss Carman
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Elbert Hubbard
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
Walter Bagehot
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
Eric Hoffer
The female characters that Hitch would choose-he would take these women and try to tear them down, with basically the man's control. She would not want to give in, and he would insist upon it.
Tippi Hedren
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
Shinichi Suzuki
Sex - the poor man's polo.
Clifford Odets
A man's best friends are his ten fingers.
Robert Collyer
The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb; God's thunderbolt became blunted, so man's thunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction.
Sean O'Casey
One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.
Martha Carey Thomas
The adage, 'the way to a man's heart is through his stomach,' is truer than ever.
Robin Gorman Newman
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Jacques Barzun
I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.
John Gunther
One mans stupidity is another mans wisdom.
Lindsay Kolb
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
Tommy Lasorda
If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
Elbert Hubbard
The world's a book, writ by the eternal art - Of the great author printed in man's heart, 'Tis falsely printed, though divinely penned, And all the errata will appear at the end.
Francis Quarles
Confidence is the foundation for all business relations. The degree of confidence a man has in others, and the degree of confidence others have in him, determines a man's standing in the commercial and industrial world.
William J. H. Boetcker
Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.
Shinichi Suzuki
...chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
There is a slippery step at every man's door.
H. W. Thompson
The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
Harold H. Greene
His idea was simply what a man's idea always is--to put every effort off on the woman.
Henry James
A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor.
Lucille Kallen
A man's character is his guardian divinity.
Heraclitus
Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?
George Fox
A man's family sets him apart from all other living creatures. . . . Only man stands with his children from first to last, from birth to death, and to the grave.
Robert Nathan
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook.
B. C. Forbes
Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.
Herbert Kaufman
Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.
David Sarnoff
It's the poor man's solution.
David Meredith
We refrained from announcing this detail previously out of consideration for the man's bereaved family.
Yoshinori Katori
A wise man's country is the world.
Aristippus
Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.
Alexander Maclaren
It's like, that man's playing his heart out, and we have to do the same thing. Younger guys see that and understand how they have to play the game.
Gaines Adams
They say a dog is a man´s best friend.That´s if you´re lucky enough to get one of those "friendly" dogs.
Jimmy Fallon
It's a mere moment in a man's life between the All-Star Game and an old timer's game.
Vin Scully
Beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting.
Burmese Proverb
I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.
William Wycherley
It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
Henry Wheeler Shaw
It's a poor man's dream.
David Edwards
There's no question what Hepburn would say. She would go back to what she's always said about Tracy. "He's a man's man. He put out his big paw and smacked me and that's what it's all about. And I just fell to my knees. And that's what I loved. And that's the way it's always been."
Kate Mulgrew
If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's library is a sort of harem.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
Owen Meredith
When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
John Webster
Attractiveness and magnetism of man's personality is the result of his inner radiance.
Yajur Veda
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-- victorious.
Vince Lombardi
No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.
Robert Briffault
ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.
Ambrose Bierce
The result: We don't have these huge highways downtown which are just loud and a no-man's-land.
Bob Mcgilvray
A man's measure is his will.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.
Morris Leopold Ernst
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
William James
For the pilots, it's a thinking man's game.
Rick Searfoss
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
William Blake
I'm 75 and that's a lot of stress, ... I've got $1 million invested in here, but it's a younger man's game. There's a lot of pressure in this business.
Cliff Hall
The thinking man's crumpet.
Frank Muir
My condolences and those of everyone else's on this team goes out to that man's family. I didn't know what to say about it. It was just a shock. Everybody on the bus felt bad about it. Everyone was just looking around like this man just lost his life. This is bigger than basketball.
Tyrese Rice
Man's extremity is God's opportunity.
John Flavel
Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.
Hans Christian Andersen
It's a really interesting thing to see a grown man cry. It really gets to a man's heart.
Greg Vaughn
Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?
William Pitt The Elder
All I have to say is it's a tragedy, you know, it should have never happened. A man's heart should have never have been like that, to conceive such thoughts, conceive to do such things.
Nathaniel Osbourne
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
John Heywood
A man's home is his wife's castle.
Alexander Chase
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One man's blight is another man's castle. Without proper restrictions and well-defined parameters, governments will exploit the blight loophole and continue to abuse eminent domain power.
Peyton Knight
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.
Alan Paton
He cut wood that weekend and delivered it to the man's house so he could have heat.
Denny Powell
It's kind of like one of the 'Dirty Harry' movies with Clint Eastwood. At the end of the film Clint says, 'A man's gotta know his limitations.'
David Meyer
A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.
John Foster Dulles
When a young person turns 17 they basically enter a no man's land legally.
Rep. Bryan Stevenson
A sort of reaffirmation of a man's station in life.
Chris Moneymaker
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is the finger of God on a man's shoulder.
Margaret Kennedy
The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop through that pesky rib cage.
Jeph Jacques
I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast.
Basil Bunting
A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
Barry Hannah
One man's folly is another man's wife.
Helen Rowland
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
Erich Fromm
Ah yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
Robin Williams
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
Nathaniel Emmons
A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy
God gave me another man's wife.
Doyle Davidson
It's still a man's world.
William Pollack
It is a young man's game.
Julian Robertson
The old man's still got it.
Mike Peterson
The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.
Roseanne Barr
No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
Judge Gideon J. Tucker
One man's transparency is another's humiliation.
Gerry Adams
In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope
I contemplated man's little spark, what it should be valued before God alongside of this great work of heaven and earth.
Jacob Boehme
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
William Booth
Walking is man's best medicine.
Hippocrates
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them.
Casey Stengel
A man's work is his dilemma: his job is his bondage, but it also gives him a fair share of his identity and keeps him from being a bystander in somebody else's world.
Melvin Maddocks
Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
Dorothea Brande
A doctor has a stethoscope up to a man's chest. The man asks "Doc, how do I stand?" The doctor says "That's what puzzles me!"
Henny Youngman
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Mark Twain
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.
William Graham Sumner
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain
By trying, we can endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Mark Twain
Paternity confidence has important implications for a man's involvement with his children, since men are less likely to interact with and support children whom they do not believe to be theirs.
Kermyt Anderson
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean.
Mark Twain
Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.
Jerry Lewis
The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.
Robert Benchley
That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth
This is no man's land.
Charles Crawford
Man's main task is to give birth to himself.
Erich Fromm
The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man.
Chief Seattle
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
G. H. Hardy
I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.
Anthony Collins
The man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid?
Martha Carey Thomas
I can't be a rose in any man's lapel.
Margaret Trudeau
I share no man's opinions; I have my own.
Ivan Turgenev
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
Frederick Douglass
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
Peter Singer
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