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

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

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

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

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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

I’ve always hated the danger part of climbing, and it’s great to come down again because it’s safe.

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

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

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

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.

Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it’s fun. While it’s happening it’s fun. I feel tall.

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

Man, all lives matter.

You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn’t in place.

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.

Man is by nature a political animal.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

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

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

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

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

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

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

Endurance is patience concentrated.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

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

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that’s not something I could do.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

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

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

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.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

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

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

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

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

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

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

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

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

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.