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men
Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day. Charles Dickens
men hair doors
An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.
men brotherhood common
The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.
men fellow-man spirit
It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.
men laughing people
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
men judging world
Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.
men coats shabby
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat. Charles Caleb Colton
men talking two
When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.
men years two
No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.
apes facts hiccups
At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time. Bo Burnham
apes absurd
It is absurd to ape our betters. Aesop
apes said damn
On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things. Helena Bonham Carter
apes terrible irrational
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. George Santayana
apes habit ifs
Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly Francis Bacon
apes degrees anthropology
My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes. Gregory Keyes
apes speak found
The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals. Friedrich Nietzsche
apes tails higher
The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile. [The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.] George Herbert
apes beast
The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us. Quintus Ennius
tails influence torpedoes
The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
tails found lodges
I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter. Buffalo Bill
tails legs want
I work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really sucks' and 'You've lost it' and 'You're no good anymore.' And I crawl away with my tail between my legs and I fear that kind of ridicule, but I want them to like the music I'm bringing to them. Billy Joel
tails looks rabbits
This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail. Beatrix Potter
tails firsts coincidence
First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail Ally Carter
tails cute-winnie-the-pooh winni-the-pooh
It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it. A. A. Milne
tails accidents bites
Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident. Christopher Paolini
tails speak
Speak of a wolf and you see his tail! Fyodor Dostoevsky
tails given
He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies. George Orwell