The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

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.

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.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

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

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

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

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

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

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

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

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

The word ‚racism‘ is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything – and demanding evidence makes you a ‚racist.‘

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

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

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

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

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

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

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

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

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

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

Desire is the essence of a man.

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

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

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

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.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

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.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

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

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

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

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

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

A man’s character is his guardian divinity.