Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
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Jone’s Law
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
Jone
Man being rational
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Bertrand Russell
Man and dog
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain
Good advice
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
La Rouchefoucauld
Rejection and cats
For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat.
Anonymous
Freedom of speech
At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.
Marshall Lumsden
Sense of humour
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are worth committing.
Samuel Butler
Rock piles and cathedrals
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Tact
Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his head.
Anonymous
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