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(Men without ambition are boring) And that attitude, mistress, is why the females of your kind continue to struggle for equality. And why they continue to fail.

Apparently, word of the chicken man incident hadn't spread quite yet.

If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.'

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?

Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.

For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave.

The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.

The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne.

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.

Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.

[Richard M. Nixon was] a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.

"You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?" Hamin asked, leaning over to the man. Gurgeh nodded. "Well, a little does no harm."

I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery]

Every handsome man had a flaw. It was just her luck that in William's case that flaw was lunacy.

Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House

If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

The Hallows, the Hallows. A desperate man's dream!

The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.

She was seriously staring. Which was what you did when you got a gander at a man who is hung like a Louisville Slugger.

I grew up in Canada and was a huge Spider-Man fan, and never thought of Spider-Man as an American hero.

You're a very odd man," said Bert. "I get that more often than you'd think," replied Charles.

The only politician in America I know with a man-date is Jim McGreevey.