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Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
- Omar Khayyam
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and you.
- Omar Khayyam
(paraphrase)
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day,
he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.
But if he spends his days as a speculator,
shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time,
he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar,
and the lightnings blaze around us
it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post.
- Luther Martin
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.
- John F. Kennedy
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
A man can do only what he can do.
But if he does that each day he can sleep at night
and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer
Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
All things share the same breath the
beast, the tree, the man... the air
shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal
of plain living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants.
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
There is a sufficiency in the world
for man's need but not for man's greed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
I submit to you that if a man hasn't
discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
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
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
The more a man can forget, the greater the number
of metamorphoses which his life can undergo,
the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man
are fixed upon the same creation;
but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
- Albert Pike
There are other measures of self-respect for a man,
than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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