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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Voltaire

Judge, Rather, Questions

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Chanakya

Wife, Friend, Adversity

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
Lao Tzu

Him, Few, Agree

I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.
Michael Jordan

Best, Loved, Guy

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
Robert Frost

Mother, Father, Son

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine

Enemy, Liberty, Himself

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
Leo Tolstoy

Life, Food, Live

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Art, Wish

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
Lao Tzu

Nature, May, Another

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.
Marilyn Monroe

Woman, Feelings, Afraid

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.
Marilyn Monroe

Time, Woman, Night

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.
Marilyn Monroe

Friend, Fire, Find

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.
Marilyn Monroe

Sports, Yourself, Fight

A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
Marilyn Monroe

Love, Strength, Strong

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
Marilyn Monroe

Good, Care, Everybody

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Joseph Campbell

Life, Someone, Hero

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Memory, Simply

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

Proud, Until, Wealth

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
Abdul Kalam

Success, Enjoy, Needs

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Mind, Together

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken

Black, Times, Normal

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
Robert Frost

Hell, Anybody, Hold

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Judge, Evil, Another

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
Douglas Adams

Wife, Idiot, Dreamer

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux

Peace, Wife, Father

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Henry David Thoreau

Different, Why, Keep

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil

Love, Friendship, Good

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
Basil Hume

Love, Great, God

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Person, Blood

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Him, Against

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