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Man is by definition the first and primary weed under whose influence all other weeds have evolved.

Businessmen they drink my wine, come and taste my herb.

Being a man of faith, what was so interesting to me was the subject, which started, by the way, with Anne Rice's wonderful books.

Bowie has an unusual face. He's neither a man nor a woman. There's this aura of fantasy that surrounds him. He has flair.

It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.

Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.

I exhort and entreat you all, disregard what this man and that man thinks about these things, and inquire from the Scriptures all these things.

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.

If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed ... there would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind.

Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to men whose inner life is faint, for the inner life is full of nameless doubts.

Men Against Jive is a brilliant title! That's a military story, that's a difficult one to explain really because that's sort of a war... it's not just a war story.

When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

I'm going to Boston to see my doctor. He's a very sick man.

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.

All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could not have been invented.

men do not suspect faults which they do not commit

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

Good God. Men everywhere.

...you have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one's verbal concatenation!

The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.