The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.
War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.
In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.
The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent.
Travel should rub off Local Prejudices and provide an enlarged and impartial view of Men and Things.
On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.
Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.
Is it me? Is it like I have a beacon that only dogs and men with severe emotional problems can hear?
Oh, Alan Ryves," she said. "You're such a fantastic liar. You are the smoothest con man of them all.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.
ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.
Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.
The two men eyed each other. Assessing strengths. Looking for weaknesses. Measuring dicks once again
Yes, he is a man, so genetically he's engineered to be dense about many things, but he's not stupid.
From the example of the past, the man of the present acts prudently so as not to imperil the future.
The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.
Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.
After living with Richard, I discovered that men are only good at cleaning stuff they can hose down.
A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men.
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.
[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'. When she said, hey man, you crazy or somethin'?
My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.
The reason why women grown bad are worse than men is because it is the best that turns to the worst.
Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.
There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
As long as something is happening it really does not matter if it is of God, of man or of the devil.
Every man has a right to life, and this means that he has also a right to make a comfortable living.
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its faith not in the living God, but in dying men.
Men are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.
Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.