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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
by Joseph Addison

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison

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Quotes by Joseph Addison

If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison

When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess,
we act and think in vain,
and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
- Joseph Addison

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels
from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved
by the person whom he entirely loves.
- Joseph Addison

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort,
should, when young, consider that he may one day become old,
and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
- Joseph Addison

To say that authority, whether secular or religious,
supplies no ground for morality
is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
- Joseph Addison

What sculpture is to a block of marble,
education is to the soul.
- Joseph Addison

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are
something to do,
something to love,
and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
- Joseph Addison

Man Quotes and Sayings

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand

I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln

No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain

Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain

A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell

Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus

A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy

Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb

He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates

It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon

Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous

What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus

A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill

A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde

Show me a man who knows his own heart
and to him I shall belong.
- Jewel

The youth gets together his materials
to build a bridge to the moon,
or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth,
and, at length, the middle-aged man
concludes to build a woodshed with them.
- Henry David Thoreau

Anxiety is love's greatest killer.
It makes one feel as you might
when a drowning man holds unto you.
You want to save him, but you know
he will strangle you with his panic.
- Anais Nin

A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Give a man one rabbit, and he will eat for a day;
give a man two rabbits, and he will
feed his family and his neighbors
and return you 64,768 rabbits in change.
- Anonymous

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50,
and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Until he extends the circle of
his compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer

There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff

Give the right man two fishes and some bread,
and he will feed the world;
give the wrong man two fishes and some bread
and he will invent the fast-food fish sandwich.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw

Do not hire a man who does your work for money,
but him who does it for love of it.
- Henry David Thoreau

I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation,
man would still be a beast in the forest.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
- Robert A. Heinlein

You can lead a man to Congress,
but you can't make him think.
- Milton Berle

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