A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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

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.

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.

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

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

What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It’s not an intellectual thing. It’s almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

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

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.

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

Research is creating new knowledge.

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

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

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

A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

You can always tell when a man’s well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Desire is the essence of a man.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

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

Spend more time in study and prayer. That’s the secret of successful evangelism.

From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

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

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

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

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

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

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

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.

When I did A Soldier’s Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

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.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

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.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

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

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

And if you’re horrible to me I’m going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That’s how I operate.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

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.

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges – on gifts, trades, loans – and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

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

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

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.

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

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

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