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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country. This is not so strange when you reflect that from the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture... W. Somerset Maugham
People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation. Milan Kundera
Saying you like "Piano Man" doesn't mean you like Billy Joel; it means you're willing to go to a piano bar if there's nothing else to do Chuck Klosterman
It is my faith and conviction that the Constitution came not alone of the brain and purpose of man, but of the inspiration of God. Gordon B. Hinckley
Karl Rahner quote: "When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying."
When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying. Karl Rahner
Annie Dillard quote: "Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she..."
Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves. Annie Dillard
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Under a goverment which imprisons any unjustly, the true place..."
Under a goverment which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison Henry David Thoreau
While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe. Neil Gaiman
Young man,' Porbus said, seeing Poussin stare open-mouthed at a picture, 'Don't look at the canvas too long, it will drive you to despair. Honore de Balzac
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand..."
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Charles Bukowski quote: "each man's hell is in a different place: mine is just up and..."
each man's hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behindmy ruined face. Charles Bukowski
Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him. P. G. Wodehouse
Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily, leisurely, and aperiodic; it is the inner cadence that brings fruit to ripeness, a woman to childbirth, a man to change the direction of his life. Sam Keen
Audrey Hepburn quote: "You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks..."
You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you. Audrey Hepburn
If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail upon a sea where shipwrecks are a common occurrence and there are often sudden storms that sweep the helmsman in an adverse direction, I conclude that this man, although he lauds navigation, really forbids me to launch my ship. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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