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

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

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

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

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

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

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.

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

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

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

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

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

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

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.

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

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

Desire is the essence of a man.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

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

I do like Burial; he’s so curiously clumsy, you can’t help but be moved. It’s so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.

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

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it’s like therapy for me.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

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

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

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

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.

One of the finest statesmen of the present time is also a first-class scout, and that is Mr. Roosevelt, the late President of the United States of America.

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

One aged man – one man – can’t fill a house.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

The little man is still a man.

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

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

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

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

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

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.

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

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

Indeed, we’re strongest when the face of America isn’t only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.

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

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 the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.