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

I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

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

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

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

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.

If there’s a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it’s not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there’s a house rumor, they’ll find out it’s not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.

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

Medicines are only fit for old people.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

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.

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 child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

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

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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.

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

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

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

Man is by nature a political animal.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

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

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

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

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

The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we’d have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.

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

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

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

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

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.

A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

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

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

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.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

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.

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

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.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.

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

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

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

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.