A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

I always did like a man in uniform. And that one fits you grand. Why don't you come up sometime and see me?

There are men who talk of women and others who talk to them. I don’t talk of them, I prefer talking to them

Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living

Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.

Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.

Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.

Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that's not the way men work.

The weight of great power crushes the goodness of the man who rules and the honesty of those who are ruled.

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.

My vocals are bad, I can't sing, hey man, I wouldn't ask you to do a drum roll if your arm was falling off.

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music man. It's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.

Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

Ha!' said the tall man drily. 'He was in high luck. Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply.

I am a man who likes to control things, and if I can't control them totally I will not control them at all.

I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.

It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another.

If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?

Gay men should not adopt the sophomoric model of heterosexual dating; gay men should always have sex first.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.

There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.

I got married to an amazing woman, had 2 awesome kids and toured with Jeff Beck, I can die a happy man now.

From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.

[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

It will cost you everything to follow the Lord. And it will cost you even more to be His man for this hour.

A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.

What do you get the man who has everything? Might I suggest a gravestone inscribed with the words: so what?

-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.

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