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.

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

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

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

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

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

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

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.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

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.

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

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

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

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

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Man, all lives matter.

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

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

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

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

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

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

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

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

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

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

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

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.

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

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

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

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

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

The little man is still a man.