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By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

Solomon Schechter

Civilization

Man

Vice

Vulgarity

The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he really is and what he tries to be.

Dore Schary

Man

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.

I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

George Savile

Man

Patience

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.

Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin