The word of man is the most durable of all material.

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

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

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

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

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

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

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

Man is by nature a political animal.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

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

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

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

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

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

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

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

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

A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

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

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

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

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this Agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers.

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

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

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.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Man – a being in search of meaning.

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.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

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

For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to ‚mince about‘ was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

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

Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

Man, all lives matter.

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

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

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.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

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

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