The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.
Robert FrostA man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.
PlatoFrom my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work.
Alexander Graham BellSome of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.
Dwayne JohnsonA man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon BonaparteIt is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Bertrand RussellA broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
George Bernard ShawA man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel JohnsonMan weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
H. L. MenckenA man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMy father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.
Stephen HawkingOpposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
George EliotMy father worked for a children’s home called Dr. Barnardo’s Homes. They’re a charity.
David BowieThe tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert SchweitzerNo man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel JohnsonExtremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
Alexander PopeMy father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.
Alexander the GreatA mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship – and you know what, a father does, too. It’s time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a ‚Mad Men‘ episode.
Barack ObamaIf you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
Abraham LincolnGod created man, but I could do better.
Erma BombeckPersistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Napoleon HillMy dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.
Dolores HuertaTherefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
AristotleIt is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThe 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.
Henry David ThoreauThere is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
Hunter S. ThompsonA 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.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.
Joel OsteenLove matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Friedrich NietzscheThe man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMan, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
Napoleon HillA man’s character is his guardian divinity.
HeraclitusA man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Albert CamusMy father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.
Bob DylanTemptation is a woman’s weapon and man’s excuse.
H. L. MenckenAs long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
James MadisonI 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.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinMan can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
Albert SchweitzerMan is by nature a political animal.
AristotleNo sane man will dance.
Marcus Tullius CiceroBiographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Mark TwainThe proper study of Mankind is Man.
Alexander PopeI used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.
Mr. TIt’s disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There’s no bravado to any of it; it’s just a disgusting little trick.
Kobe BryantWhat every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
William JamesNature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
Benjamin DisraeliI always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.
Clint EastwoodAgainst eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
Albert CamusBeauty is the greatest seducer of man.
Paulo CoelhoFrom a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThe 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.
Bob MarleyThis man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!
Henny YoungmanMy father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘
Joe BidenNature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
Galileo GalileiBehind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
Groucho MarxNothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
Joseph AddisonMy father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Harry S. TrumanWhy does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody Allen