A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

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

God created man, but I could do better.

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.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

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

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

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

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.

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

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

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.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

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

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

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

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

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

No sane man will dance.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

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.

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

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

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

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.

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.

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.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

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

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 kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

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

Study men, not historians.

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

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

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.

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.

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

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

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.