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Venus, thy eternal sway All the race of men obey. Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis. He is not a lover who does not love for ever.

Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.

My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.

Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man.

I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the World Championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.

A bachelor is only half a man

If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day.

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty.

I never thought that Spider-Man would become the world wide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I'd keep my job.

I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?

The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.

Man I wouldn't want to be in [MGK's] position right now ... He's just oblivious to what's going on.

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.

Well. That's helpful. We'll put an APB out on the Gingerbread Man. I'm not hopeful it'll do us much good, though. Word on the street is you can't catch him.

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.