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Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.
St. Ignatius Loyola
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
Phyllis McGinley
Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
Max Beerbohm
The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
Roger von Oech
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
Oscar Wilde
The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there; Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate And the Warder is Despair.
Once again there was the desert, and that only.
Stephen King
The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many be corrupted.
Aldous Huxley
Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
Samuel Johnson
To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.
Mark Twain
A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
Thomas Carlyle
People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has man invented that even approaches in cruelty to some of the commoner diseases? Natural death, almost by definition, means something slow, smelly and painful.
George Orwell
Good frend for Jesus sake forbeare To digg the dust encloased heare Blese be the man that spares these stones And curst be he that moves my bones
William Shakespeare
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is.
Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.
Henry David Thoreau
He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.
How hollow and full of ribaldry is the heart of man!
Blaise Pascal
The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.
A God humiliated, even to the death on the cross; a Messiah triumphing over death by his own death. Two natures in Jesus Christ, two advents, two states of man's nature.
