A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what’s really happened.

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince’s part to pardon.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC’s military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It’s a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

Man is by nature a political animal.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

I gave ‚em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Temptation is a woman’s weapon and man’s excuse.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.