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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Young, Old, Knows

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
Aldous Huxley

Best, Nothing, Situation

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson

Time, Wise, Pain

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
Napoleon Hill

Show, Making, Knows

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.
Robert Mugabe

Trust, Dead, White

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
Ayn Rand

God, Power, Beyond

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Clint Eastwood

Less, Prejudice, Likely

I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
Mae West

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

Enough, Perfection, Admit

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
Denis Waitley

Until, Shoes, Blues

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Voltaire

Happy, Nor, Abuse

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
Marcus Aurelius

Men, Live, Real

One man cannot practice many arts with success.
Plato

Success, Cannot, Practice

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
Plato

Nature, Good, Evil

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Made, Belief, Believes

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
Ayn Rand

Learning, May, Control

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Erich Fromm

Life, Important, Give

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Terry Pratchett

Life, Fire, Rest

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Today, Old, Follow

The great object is that every man be armed.
Patrick Henry

Great, Object, Armed

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
Plato

Ways, Happening, Accidents

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
Plato

Two, Feet, Animal

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Francis Bacon

Age, Old, Older

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis Bacon

Revenge, Green, Wounds

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Voltaire

Free, Moment, Wishes

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
Ayn Rand

Themselves, While, Unique

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
T. S. Eliot

Heart, Lord, Excellent

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
Plato

Good, Truth, Beginning

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
Plato

Service, Gods, Tolerable

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

Clever, Blunders, Commits

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