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“We commend a horse for his strength, and sureness of foot, and not for his rich caparisons; a greyhound for his share of heels, not for his fine collar; a hawk for her wing, not for her jesses and bells. Why, in like manner, do we not value a man for what is properly his own? He has a great train, a beautiful palace, so much credit, so many thousand pounds a year, and all these are about him, but not in him.”

Men Years Beautiful Values Rich Feet Share Fine Thousand Horse Wings Train Appreciation Credit Pounds Bells Heels Palaces Collars Hawks Greyhounds

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things I had learned in my first 40 years. I told him that the chief thing I had learned was that the copybook maxims are true, but that too many people forget this once they go out into the heat and hustle and bustle of the battle of life and only realize their truth once one foot is beginning to slip into the grave. The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.”

“Man has subdued the world, but woman has subdued man. Mind and muscle have won his victories; love and loveliness have gained hers. No monarch has been so great, no peasant so lowly, that he has not been glad to lay his best at the feet of a woman.”

Men World Mind Has Beens Women Feet Victory Lays Glad Muscles Peasants Monarchs Loveliness

Book:Woman's Worth and Worthlessness: The Complement to

Source: Woman's Worth and Worthlessness: The Complement to

“[Christ's] character is twofold: like the head of the body in that he is regarded as God and yet comparable to the feet in that he put on humanity for the sake of our salvation, a man of passions like ours.”

Men Character Body Humanity Passion Christ Feet Salvation Sake

Book:Eusebius: The Church History

Source: Eusebius: The Church History

“Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact. Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet, for God is here within.”

Men Book God Facts Simple Feet Divine Institutions Shoes Declaration Invaders

Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light, is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie,--an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.”

Source: Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays

“Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good to me?”

Ifs Men Wells Sound Feet Advice Luck Shoes Clever Unlucky Very Clever Clever Man Rothschild

Author:Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild

“The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.”

Ifs Men Feels States Government Wise Society Feet Security Strength Constitution Impart

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“In the beginning, there was no retirement. There were no old people. In the Stone Age, everyone was fully employed until age 20, by which time nearly everyone was dead, usually of unnatural causes. Any early man who lived long enough to develop crow's-feet was either worshiped or eaten as a sign of respect.”

People Men Long Enough Age Causes Feet Stones Aging Retirement Employed Old People Unnatural Crow Stone Age

Author:Mary-Lou Weisman

“Instead of it being the mark of a real man that you can shoot somebody at 50 feet and kill them with a gun, the mark of a real man is that you would never do anything like that. . . . The gun is a great equalizer because it makes wimps as dangerous as people who really have skill and bravery and so I'd like to have this notion that anyone using a gun is a wuss. They aren't anybody to be looked up to. They're somebody to look down at because they couldn't defend themselves or couldn't protect others without using a gun.”

People Men Looks Real Feet Dangerous Protect Skills Gun Mark Bravery Notion Real Men Equalizer Wimps

Author:David Hemenway

“About 4000 men, women and teenagers regularly venture out to play a game in -20 weather and stinging prairie winds. Bundled in sweaters and snow suits, balaclavas on their heads and suction cupped shoes on their feet. They slip and slide across the outdoor hockey rinks chasing a soft rubber puck in the Sponge Hockey Capital of the World.”

Men World Play Games Feet Wind Shoes Snow Weather Suits Teenager Hockey Slips Venture Chasing Slides Men Women Rubber Sweaters Sponges Prairie Puck

Author:Bob Cox

“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”

“When someone walks in and you say "a six-foot-tall man," you miss the opportunity to describe what a six-foot-tall man would look like to your narrator, because how the narrator describes a six-foot-tall man says more about the narrator than about the man.”

Men Looks Opportunity Walks Feet Missing He Man Six Tall Narrators

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on your feet and be men. It is man-making theories that we want. It is man-making education all round that we want.”

Men Want Long Enough Motivational Feet Theory Rounds Muscles Iron Nerves Steel Be A Man Weeping

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“We have wept enough. No more weeping, but stand on feet and be men.”

Men Enough Motivational Feet Be A Man Weeping

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Amma Theodora said: A certain monk, afflicted by many sorrows, said to himself, "Leave this place." With these words he began to put his sandals on his feet, and suddenly he saw the devil in the form of a man sitting in the corner of his cell. The devil was also putting on his sandals. He said to the monk, "Are you leaving here because of me? Well then, wherever you go, I will be there before you."”

Men Inspirational Wells Said Christian Form Certain Religious Saws Feet Sorrow Devil Sitting Leaving Corners Cells Orthodox Monk Sandals Amma

Author:Ignatius Bryanchaninov

“The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.”

Men Should Spirit Liberty Rights Imagine Feet Particular Lows Multitudes Wronged

Book:The Works of William Ellery Channing

Source: The Works of William Ellery Channing

“It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all.”

People Men World Play Seems Young Friendship White Feet This World Six Caught Geek Rabbits

Author:James Stewart

“In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind's song, Bending the banner-poles. While, all alone, Watching the loophole's spark, Lie I, with life all dark, Feet tethered, hands fettered Fast to the stone, The grim walls, square lettered With prisoned men's groan. Still strain the banner-poles Through the wind's song, Westward the banner rolls Over my wrong.”

Men Life Long Stills Hands Lying Song Sound Dark Half Feet Wind Wall Stones Prison Sparks Squares Strain Grim All Alone Banner Bending Loopholes

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.”

Men Cutting Feet Stamps Corn

Book:Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s

Source: Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s

“I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.”

Men Prayer Saws Feet Praying Rosary

Author:John Locke

“Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny.”

Men Believe Facts Death Destiny Feet Election Invites Accomplices Inscrutable

Book:The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy

Source: The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy

“Running, close companion to death, summons us to the most vivid acts of life. Our ancestors (we have forgotten) ran for food and for love, love and lust. For us, a prime symbol of sexuality is the automobile. For the ancients it was the chase, the foot race. Satyr and nymph, maiden and god, hot pursuit. The mythic hunters, Diana and Atalanta, available only to the males, men or gods, who could outrun them; death to all others.”

Men Running Race Feet Hot Males Forgotten Available Sexuality Pursuit Lust Symbols Ran Companion Prime Ancestor Hunters Vivid Automobile Maidens Diana Outrun Nymphs Love And Lust Satyrs

Book:The Ultimate Athlete

Source: The Ultimate Athlete

“No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.”

Men Wells Success Time Mistake Feet Failure One Time Congratulations Success Failure Success Or Failure Failure Inspirational

Book:The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams

Source: The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams

“Once I wept for I had no shoes. Then I met a man with no feet, so I took his shoes. I mean, it wasn't as if he was going to need them.”

Ifs Men Needs Mean Feet Mets Shoes

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Whatever else you do or forbear, impose upon yourself the task of happiness; and now and then abandon yourself to the joy of laughter. And however much you condemn the evil in the world, remember that the world is not all evil; that somewhere children are at play, as you yourself in the old days; that women still find joy in the stalwart hearts of men; And that men, treading with restless feet their many paths, may yet find refuge from the storms of the world in the cheerful house of love.”

Men World Heart May Children Stills Play Remember Joy Evil House Path Feet Laughter Tasks Storm Abandon Now And Then Refuge Cheerful Restless Old Days Treading Many Paths Stalwart

Book:The Desiderata of Happiness

Source: The Desiderata of Happiness

“The fool is looking for happiness far away. The wise man makes it grow under his feet.”

Men Grows Wise Feet Fool Far Away Looking For Happiness

Author:James Oppenheim

“I always challenged men, you know, in foot races or whatever as a kid growing up, because it was a way of pushing myself and challenging myself against the best - but you have to know and accept that men are born with testosterone. You can beat them for so long, but eventually they’ll catch up.”

Knows Men Way Long Kids Born Challenges Race Accepting Growing Up Growing Feet Beats Pushing Testosterone Kids Growing Up Challenging Myself

Author:Katie Uhlaender

“If I buy a Fiat Uno, I'll read that, for a man like me, a Ferrari was more suitable. If instead I buy a Ferrari, they'll write that I should have kept my feet on the ground and bought a Fiat. If I smile, I'm not serious. If I don't smile, I'm a rich sulker that doesn't enjoy having the most beautiful job in the world.”

Ifs Men World Should Writing Jobs Beautiful Enjoy Rich Feet Serious Should Have Like Me Suitable I Smile Ferrari Feet On The Ground

Author:Mario Balotelli

“Modern man creates fancy cars while losing the sacredness of his feet and lungs.”

Men Feet Modern Car Losing Fancy Lungs Modern Man Sacredness Fancy Cars

Author:Steve Ilg

“Society must fight against this belief in God as it fought against idol worship and other narrow conceptions of religion. In this way man will try to stand on his feet. Being realistic, he will have to throw his faith aside and face all adversaries with courage and valour. That is exactly my state of mind.”

Men Way Trying Mind States Faces Fighting Belief Feet Worship Conception Realistic State Of Mind Being Real Idols Adversaries Belief In God Valour Idol Worship

Book:Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation

Source: Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation

“Jack Tatum could hit a man so hard that it would lift both his feet off the ground.”

Men Hard Feet Lifts Feet Off The Ground

Author:Woody Hayes

“We mustn't be afraid of inventing anything...Everething there is in us exists in nature. After all, we're part of nature. If it resembles nature, that's fine. If it doesn't, what of it? When man wanted to invent something as useful as the human foot, he invented the wheel, which he used to transport himself and his burdens. The fact that the wheel doesn't have the slightest resemblance to the human foot is hardly a criticism of it.”

Ifs Men Humans Facts Wanted Used Feet Fine Criticism Burden Wheels Inventing Transport Resemblance

Author:Francoise Gilot

“Everything here below beneath the sun is subject to continual change; and perhaps there is nothing which can be called more inconstant than opinion, which turns round in an everlasting circle like the wheel of fortune. He who reaps praise today is overwhelmed with biting censure tomorrow; today we trample under foot the man who tomorrow will be raised far above us.”

Men Today Turns Opinion Sun Feet Subjects He Man Tomorrow Praise Fortune Raised Rounds Circles Wheels Overwhelmed Everlasting Reap Censure Biting Transience Wheel Of Fortune

Book:The Best Tales of Hoffmann

Source: The Best Tales of Hoffmann

“Miserable is the man who loves a woman and takes her for his wife, pouring at her feet the sweat of his skin and the blood of his body and the life of his heart, and placing her in the hands of the fruit of his toil and the revenue of his diligence; for when he slowly wakes up, he finds that the heart that he endeavored to buy is given away freely and in sincerity to another man for the enjoyment of its hidden secrets and deepest love.”

Men Heart Body Hands Given Secret Wife Blood Feet He Man Skins Wake Up Fruit Miserable Enjoyment Sincerity Sweat Toil Revenue Another Man Diligence Pouring Hidden Secrets Deepest Love

Author:Khalil Gibran

“There is no ordinary run of mankind, there are only individuals who are totally different. And whether a man is naked and black and stands on one foot in Sudan or is clothed in some kind of costume in a bus in England, they are still individuals of entirely different characters.”

Men Kind Stills Different Character Running Individual Black Feet Mankind Ordinary England Naked Bus Costumes Different Characters Sudan

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's science, the most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen, may live to see him fat, slow, old, and bald taking a beating from a younger man. But I would like to hazard a prediction that whoever beats Joe Louis in an honest fight in the next fifteen years will have to get up the floor to do it.”

Men Years May Light Beautiful Moving Young Fighting Next Feet Honest Beats Machines Fats Get Up Young Man Old Man Fifteen Smooth Predictions Hazards Fifteen Years Leopards

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“A Sceptick therefore, who because he finds that Truths are not universally received, doubts of their existence, is just as foolish as a man who should try large shoes upon little feet, and little shoes upon large feet, and finding that they did not fit.”

Men Should Trying Littles Existence Doubt Feet Fit Findings Shoes Foolish

Author:James Boswell

“No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room. . . .”

Men Rooms Feet Claims

Author:Marsilio Ficino

“I love the slider. I'll throw it anytime. It helps the curve. The last five feet, it dives toward the left-handed hitter's box. It's a pitch that looks like a fastball coming in. It's a pitch I throw when I need a ground ball with a man on base.”

Men Needs Looks Helping Lasts Left Five Feet Balls Boxes Curves Left Handed Fastballs

Author:Kerry Wood

“Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may be hanging downwards, trees growing backwards, or rain falling upwards? Where is the marvel of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon if we are to allow of a hanging world at the Antipodes?”

Ifs Men World Believe May Fall Growing Tree Feet Higher Rain Garden Foolish Backwards Babylon Rain Falling Antipodes

Author:Lactantius

“Real men don't do pickup lines just to sweep off every girls' feet. They do and trust their own instincts knowing what the girls' wants and needs. Vying to win their hearts.”

Men Want Needs Heart Real Girl Winning Lines Knowing Feet Instinct Real Men Every Girl Wants And Needs Pickups Pickup Line

Author:Jean Kerr

“No man can climb the ladder of success without first placing his foot on the bottom rung.”

Men Firsts Feet Bottom Climbs Ladders Ladder Of Success

Author:James Cash Penney

“A man should orient his will and all his works to God and having only God in view go forward unafraid, not thinking, am I right or am I wrong? One who worked out all the chances before starting his first fight would never fight at all. And if, going to someplace, we must think how to set the front foot down, we shall never get there. It is our duty to do the next thing: go straight on, that is the right way.”

Ifs Thinking Men Way Should Firsts Fighting Next Chance Views Feet Fronts Duty Starting Right Way Unafraid

Author:Meister Eckhart

“A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet.”

Men Goal Feet Worthy Accomplish Despondency Pressing Forward

Book:The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.”

Men World Mind Feet Cry Possession Conquer Contentment Another World

Book:Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series

Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series

“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.”

Men Long Enough Goal Feet Higher Perseverance Addiction Classroom Ladders Focus On Goals Off To College

Book:Selected works of Thomas H. Huxley

Source: Selected works of Thomas H. Huxley

“What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?”

Men Hands Winning Greater Feet Glory Strive Racing

Book:Odyssey, Homer

Source: Odyssey, Homer

“We are foolish to expect to serve God without opposition: the more zealous we are, the more sure are we to be assailed... Glory be to God, we know the end of the war. The great dragon shall be cast out and for ever destroyed, while Jesus and they who are with him shall receive the crown. Let us sharpen our swords to-night, and pray the Holy Spirit to nerve our arms for the conflict. Never battle so important, never crown so glorious. Every man to his post, ye warriors of the cross, and may the Lord tread Satan under your feet shortly!”

“Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.”

Men Feet Perfection Bases Ninety

Author:Red Smith

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