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

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

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

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

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.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

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

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.

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.

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

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

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

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

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

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.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

I’m always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that’s the most interesting: the part that doesn’t go according to what you expected.

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

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

I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

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

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

If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?

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

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

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

OK, so what’s the speed of dark?

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.

Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.

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

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.

The little man is still a man.

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

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.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

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

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

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

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.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

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

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

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

I pull no punches!