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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

William Blake

Man

Mind

Opinions

Water

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days.

Jacqueline Bisset

Man

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.

Elizabeth Bishop

Man

Shadow

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.

But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.

Larry Bird

Man

Will

The more aware a man is of a woman's body, the better. He needs to know he has to tend to a woman. She might not always return the favor, but a man always has to tend to a woman first.