Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
by Saint Basil
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
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Many Sayings
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
- Alfred Adler
Faith is the highest passion in a human being.
Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
Celebration has many different outfits
but she always wears the same beautiful dancing shoes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
And as he spoke of understanding,
I looked up and saw the rainbow leap
with flames of many colors over me.
- Black Elk
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
There are many answers you have received
but have not yet heard.
- A Course In Miracles
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
The True Surprise is that
So Many of Us have Evolved So Rapidly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have the right to love many people at once
and to change my prince often.
- Anais Nin
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have spent many years of my life in opposition,
and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
There are as many pillows of illusion
as flakes in a snow-storm.
We wake from one dream into another dream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm Forbes
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
Many people mistake our work for our vocation.
Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
- Mother Teresa
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
How many things there are concerning which we might
well deliberate whether we had better know them.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend
reality by imagination, as I try to do.
- Anais Nin
How many legs does a dog have
if you call the tail a leg? Four.
Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
- Abraham Lincoln
Misery nourishes your ego -
that's why you see so many miserable people in the world.
The basic, central point is the ego.
- Osho
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things
which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allen Poe
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,
always with the same person.
- Germaine Greer
If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog?
Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.
- Abraham Lincoln
Just because it's true, I say as often as I can
in as many ways as I can form, "I sure love you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay.
If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
- Henry David Thoreau
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
Too many people are thinking of security
instead of opportunity.
They seem more afraid of life than death.
- James F. Bymes
Man Sayings
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
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
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm Forbes
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
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