| "If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government --and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws." »Edward Abbey |
| "Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness." »Archibald MacLeish |
| "Slater Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man when he come in the door, man she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man." »Dazed and Confused |
| "The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates." »Sir William Alton Jones |
| "It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh Because it is a gravely religious matter it is the Fall of man. Only man can be absurd for only man can be dignified." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
| "Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can." »Vince Lombardi |
| "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." »Francis Bacon |
| "The man for whom law exists -- the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you." »Thomas Carlyle |
| "The air is precious to the red man, for all things share the same breath-the beast, the tree, the man, they all share the same breath. The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes. Like a man dying for many days, he is numb to the stench." »Chief Seattle |
| "The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lie down on some seaweed and roll around until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go, 'Hey, I'm Vine man.'" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart mark and avoid him." »Cicero |
| "The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man." »Confucius |
| "I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man I want a man without money rather than money without a man." »Themistocles |
| "Ignorance of the law excuses no man Not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him." »John Selden |
| "Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings." »John F. Kennedy |
| "Trent I don't want you to be the guy in the PG-13 movie everyone's *really* hoping makes it happen. I want you to be like the guy in the rated R movie, you know, the guy you're not sure whether or not you like yet. You're not sure where he's coming from. Okay You're a bad man. You're a bad man. You're a bad man, bad man." »Swingers |
| "Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything." »Johann K. Lavater |
| "It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all" »William Hart Coleridge |
| "What is man without the beasts If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected." »Chief Seattle |
| "The spirit of man communes with Heaven the omnipotence of Heaven resides in man. Is the distance between Heaven and man very great" »Hung Tzu-ch'eng |
| "That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate." »Erich Fromm |
| "As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly." »Samuel Johnson |
| "If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "Beanie Well, let me be the first to say congratulations to you man you have one vagina for the rest of your life. Real smart man." »Old School |
| "Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison." »Buddha |
| "man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield |
| "A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal." »Winston Churchill |
| "A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion." »Chinese Proverb |
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