Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
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.
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.