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What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Jean de La Fontaine

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

Jean de La Fontaine

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

Jean de La Fontaine

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.

Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.