While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
Honey, have you ever seen a man knitting socks?
It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
I'm not resigning, and I'm going to try very hard to go back to work a better man and a better husband too.
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.