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  • I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.

    Sex   Children   Real  
    Edgar Rice Burroughs (2014). “Under the Moons of Mars”, p.107, Lulu Press, Inc
  • ...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human rights. For the first time in history, in this age of unprecedented wealth and technical prowess, we have the power to save humanity from this shameful scourge. Let us summon the will to do it.

    Time   Rights   Humanity  
  • How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world about them. People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. But magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere.

  • People of small calibre are always carping. How affected so-and-so is! Don't you think he is silly? He was certainly quite mistaken about this or that. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or their prowess or good breeding.

    People   Bent   Prowess  
    "Opinions of Oliver Allston".
  • It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories.

    "Tirukkuṛaḷ". Religious text, 1812.
  • Sometimes men present a swagger that suggests a prowess, whether it's sexual or financial. L.A. seems to be a place where trying too hard is almost a given. Some people are unapologetic about how blatantly they represent who they are through what they wear or drive. Subtlety is in short supply.

    Apology   Men   People  
  • The most distinguished merit of those two officers was their respective prowess, of the one in the combats of Bacchus, of the other in those of Venus.

    Two   History   Venus  
    Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.394
  • Ability is God-given, prowess is earned.

    Given   Prowess   Ability  
  • It will make you powerful. But it will also make you weak. Your prowess in combat will be beyond any mortal's, but your weaknesses, your failings will increase as well." You mean I'll have a bad heel?" I said. "Couldn't I just, like, wear something besides sandals? No offense.

  • He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.

    Jack London (2008). “The Call of the Wild: Easyread Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

    Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1846). “Thoughts on the Poets”, p.240
  • One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.

    Interview with Paul Rudd, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 17, 2013.
  • A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target.

    Art   War   Archer  
  • No blame can be attached to the army for its failure to accomplish what was projected by me... I alone am to blame, in perhaps expecting too much of its prowess and valor... could I have foreseen that the attack on the last day would fail, I should certainly have tried some other course... but I do not know what better course I could have pursued.

    Army   Too Much   Lasts  
  • I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

    Clever   Kids   Men  
  • Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

    Men   Race   Labor Day  
  • O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what is this? Thou thoughtest of thy prowess and thy sins Thou hast not lost thyself to save thyself.

    Mother   Humility   Son  
    Alfred Lord Tennyson (1851). “The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson”
  • It's not prowess if you watch 5 hours of TV a day. It's just how you choose to spend your time.

    Watches   Tvs   Hours  
    "INTERVIEW: Author Patrick Rothfuss on his Worldbuilders Charity, Writing, Reading and Giving". Interview with Matthew Jackson, nerdbastards.com. December 9, 2013.
  • Marc’s hand tightened visibly around Kevin’s fingers, his digits going white. Again. Both men clenched their jaws, Kevin in pain, and Marc in an obvious effort to control his temper and keep from breaking Kevin’s hand. Off. Why couldn’t guys find a more original way to test each other’s manly prowess? Arm wrestling might have been more subtle. Or maybe comparing the length of their…canines.

    Pain   Wrestling   Men  
    Rachel Vincent (2016). “Rogue”, p.84, MIRA
  • Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep to the tracks of others or emulate the prowess of their models. So a prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding.

    "Memorable Quotations: Philosophers of Western Civilization". Book by Carol Dingle, p. 144, July 26, 2000.
  • There is a reason why George Washington is always one of the top three presidents, and it's not because of his prowess as a military leader; it's not because of the incredible innovations in policy that he introduced. It's because he knew when it was time to go.

    Source: www.vanityfair.com
  • What demon is our god? What name subsumes That act external to our sleeping selves? Not pleasure - it is much too broad and narrow, - Not sex, not for the moment love, but pride, And not in prowess, but pride undefined, Autonomous in its unthought demands, A bit of vanity, but mostly pride.

    Sex   Sleep   Pride  
    "In a Few Days Now When Two Memories Meet (1964)". "Poems Of J.V. Cunningham". Book edited by Timothy Steele, 1997.
  • Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.

  • We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.

  • At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed it, while their females admired them for their prowess.

    War   Victory   Facts  
    Bertrand Russell (2004). “In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays”, p.99, Psychology Press
  • Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.

  • She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men, not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, their strength of soul, their compassion, and... ah, this above all... their conversation.

    Passion   Character   Men  
    "Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1996.
  • The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

    Gratitude   War   Home  
    Speech in House of Commons, 20 Aug. 1940
  • I pray God that we shall never use our physical prowess to oppress the human race, but we will use our strength, physically, morally and otherwise to preserve humanity and civilization.

    Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.12, Ravenio Books
  • Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect.

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