If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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.

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

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Some people, they take their form of working out as a religion that they think is better than everyone else’s. I’m not like that. If you have a better way to work out, and you can teach it to me, and I find it to be useful and gets me in better shape, I’m all about.

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

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

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

Man, all lives matter.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

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

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

The same thing I did in 2013 is what I’m trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I’ll have another hour of stand-up material where I’ll be able to go on the road and tour again.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious – even with new players. You can’t, say, sell him, get a new one.

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support – a significant problem in the software industry.

Man is by nature a political animal.

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.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

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

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

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

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

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.

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

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.

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

Common Core is a big win for education.

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

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

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

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

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

A man’s character is his guardian divinity.

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

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

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

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

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

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

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

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It’s a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

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

I like a man who grins when he fights.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.