But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

It’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.

Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

An author writes a book, and that’s the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise – repeal all compromises – repeal the Declaration of Independence – repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man’s heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

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

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

I’m not perfect.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

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.

There are times when you throw an interception and you’re beating yourself up.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That’s human nature.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

You can’t score if you’re turning it over. It’s like a punt. If you go out and you punt 12 times, you’re not scoring points. That’s not good. So, when you turn the ball over and throw interceptions, you’re giving the other team more opportunities and your team less opportunities.

Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.