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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. -- Denis Diderot
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. -- Walter Savage Landor
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. -- William Halsey
Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them. -- George Henry Lewes
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. -- Elbert Hubbard
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men. -- Thucydides
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men. -- Jacob Bronowski
Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination. -- David A. Bednar
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge. -- Sun Tzu
What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited. -- C. Wright Mills
I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures. -- Rob Lowe
The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution. -- Brian Greene
Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience. -- Roland Allen
Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Heroes are often the most ordinary of men. -- Henry David Thoreau
Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination. -- Abraham Lincoln
Great men are just ordinary men that didn't quit. -- Tommy Barnett
It is best for ordinary men to have only one wife ! -- Akbar
Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men. -- William Wordsworth
The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways. -- Tahir Shah
While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance. -- Thomas Merton
Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified. -- Wilferd Peterson
There are no great men, only ordinary men, who have met extraordinary challenges. -- William Halsey
Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men -- Tunku Abdul Rahman
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation. -- Amit Kalantri
Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer. -- Mark Twight
Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all. -- Alexander Theroux
Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs. -- Pam Brown
To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions. -- Thomas Merton
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence. -- William Shakespeare
Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. -- Blaise Pascal
So few women have any clear idea of the power their ordinary beauty holds over so many of us men. -- Thomas Adcock
His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy. -- Juliet Marillier
The holiness of love inspired ordinary men and women to act like angels. It lifted them on wings closer to God. -- Nancy Holder
I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there. -- Petronius
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. -- Robert South
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. -- Robert South
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. -- Aldous Huxley
Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe. -- Laozi
To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men. -- Yoshida Shoin
Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God. -- Samuel Chadwick
There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet. -- William Halsey
Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary. -- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.] -- Horace
Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people - men and women, boys and girls - that make the world a special place -- Nelson Mandela
We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women. -- Carl Jung
The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see. -- Zhuangzi
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization. -- Woodrow Wilson
What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge. -- Sun Tzu
It is almost a sadness to my soul that men should be astonished and surprised at an ordinary, tangible evidence of the power of God. -- John G. Lake
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science. -- Sigmund Freud
Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men. -- Benjamin Haydon
Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man. -- E. B. White
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession -- Thomas Hardy
Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids. -- Gorgias
There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For ourselves, who are ordinary men and women, let us return thanks to Nature for her bounty by using every one of the senses she has given us. -- Virginia Woolf
As theories increased, simple medicines..were forgotten, at least in the politer nations. ...Medical books, were immensely multiplied,...(towards) an abstruse science, quite out of reach of ordinary men. -- John Wesley
The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one. -- Anna Quindlen
The decision to do it [play Maigret] was related to the fact that the character is a very ordinary man, and generally speaking I haven't played very many ordinary men. -- Rowan Atkinson
He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women. -- Leo Tolstoy
The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them. -- Louis XIV
When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
She can't have understood you: you are so utterly different from ordinary men. That's what I liked about you when I first saw you; I felt at once that you weren't like everybody else. -- Marcel Proust

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