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

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

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

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

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

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

Man – a being in search of meaning.

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

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

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

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

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

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

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Man, all lives matter.

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

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

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

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

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

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

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

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

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

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

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.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

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

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

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

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

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.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Desire is the essence of a man.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

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

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.

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

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

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

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

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

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

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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.

Worry and reasoning are two of Satan’s most successful tools. He’ll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off.

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

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

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.

A man’s character is his guardian divinity.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

God created man, but I could do better.

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

Man is by nature a political animal.