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

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

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.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

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

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

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

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

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.

I’m addicted to placebos.

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

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.

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

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

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

An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.

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

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

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

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

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

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

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

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

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

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

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

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.

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

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

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

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

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

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

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.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

No sane man will dance.

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

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

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

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.

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

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

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

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

Man is by nature a political animal.

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

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

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.

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.

Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.

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

I’ve always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

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.

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

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