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A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali

Life, Same, Wasted

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates

Nothing, Alive, Wisest

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Benjamin Franklin

Happiness, Nature, Money

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
Ernest Hemingway

Men, Care, Long

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Oscar Wilde

Love, Women, Men

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Friends, Cannot

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln

Today, Yesterday, Wiser

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain

Society, Influence, Clothes

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain

Character, May, Learned

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Philosophy, Moral, Modern

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
Abraham Lincoln

Before, Both, Conflict

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis

Truth, Art, Before

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln

Thoughts, Show, Books

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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle

Best, Friend, Wishes

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham Lincoln

Live, Him, Place

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Abraham Lincoln

Great, Men, True

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln

God, Made, Ability

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln

Good, Business, Enough

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Viktor E. Frankl

Attitude, Human, Everything

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde

Love, Happy, Long

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
Natalie Wood

Time, Woman, Baby

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Benjamin Franklin

Happy, Working, Miserable

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

Religion, Care, Dog

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
Malcolm X

Nothing, Fall, Stands

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx

Best, Friend, Book

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham Lincoln

Him, Fighting, Act

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert Frost

Mother, Fool, Woman

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

Cannot, Approval

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Benjamin Franklin

Peace, War, Find

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham Lincoln

Time, Thinking, Him

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