Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Christian Quotes, Men Quotes

The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of remarkable Christian forbearance among men - were it not for a mawkish humanitarianism, coupled with imperfect digestive powers, we should devour our young, as Nature intended.

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No man is born without faults.

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The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of the most important service to the science of man and the social system. It ought necessarily to precede every other inquiry into social physics, since it is, as it were, the basis. The average man, indeed, is in a nation what the centre of gravity is in a body; it is by having that central point in view that we arrive at the apprehension of all the phenomena of equilibrium and motion.

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Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

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Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

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I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.

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There are as many characters in men As there are shapes in nature.

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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

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A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

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.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness

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The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the ‘kick’.

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It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

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Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear.

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What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?

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MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.

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If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.

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Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

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Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

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The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan - Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man.

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. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

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