“The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 4.
“The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.”
Freeman (1948), p. 169
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Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Source: The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
“Every man worthy of being called a son of man bears his cross and mounts his Golgotha.”
Nikos Kazantzakis book Report to Greco
Author's Introduction, p. 15
Report to Greco (1965)
Context: Every man worthy of being called a son of man bears his cross and mounts his Golgotha. Many, indeed most, reach the first or second step, collapse pantingly in the middle of the journey, and do not attain the summit of Golgotha, in other words the summit of their duty: to be crucified, resurrected, and to save theirs souls. Afraid of crucifixion, they grow fainthearted; they do not know that the cross is the only path to resurrection. There is no other path.
“A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.”
David Gemmell book Legend
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 7
Bobby Sands (1954–1981) Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
Trilogy, pt. 3 "Torture at H Block"
Poetry, Miscellaneous poems
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736–1806) French physicist
as quoted by [C. Stewart Gillmor, Coulomb and the Evolution of Physics and Engineering in Eighteenth-century France, Princeton University Press, 1971, 069108095X, 255-261]
“A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 132.
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian
Sermon IV : True Hearing
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)