No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.
How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man.
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.
Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.
I'll work with Jerry Seinfeld any day of the week. Get a nice little paycheck there, but you do it for free. It's just good to be associated with that man. He's a great guy.
No man can lose what he never had.
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man.
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.