My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

Except for the title ‚father,‘ there is no title, including ‚vice president,‘ that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.

From 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.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

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

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

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

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

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

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father’s generation. It’s a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

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.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.

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.

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

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

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Desire is the essence of a man.

I never saw any of my dad’s stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

The 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.

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.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

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

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

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

A man’s character is his guardian divinity.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

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.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

My 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.‘

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

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

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

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

I wasn’t allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

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

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.