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

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

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

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

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.

Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.

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

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

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

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

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

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

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

My 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.

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

My father worked for a children’s home called Dr. Barnardo’s Homes. They’re a charity.

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

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

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

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

A 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.

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

God created man, but I could do better.

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

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

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

It 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.

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.

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

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.

I 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.

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

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

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

A man’s character is his guardian divinity.

A 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.

My 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.

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

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

I 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.

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

Man is by nature a political animal.

No sane man will dance.

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

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

It’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.

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

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

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

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

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

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.

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

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.‘

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

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

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

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

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.