Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

All men hate the nagging.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Men are like lions. We hunt.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.

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

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Men want to make women happy.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

The brain is wider than the sky.

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

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.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Many readers fail to realize this, but ‚The Color Purple‘ is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one’s original God: the earth and nature.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.