Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand

Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

My persona has always been what a man was never supposed to be. Outrageous, gregarious, crazy, silly, funny.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.

If you'd ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face.

It seems a lot of straight men need a word coach or a lawyer when it comes to discussing 'Sex and the City.'

No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?

[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man.

It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.

A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman.

I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this?

Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.

Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.

Man is born dead and he remains dead till he attains wisdom! Wisdom is the only resurrection man can obtain!

In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise.

The man of knowledge acquires something new everyday, and the man of Tao lets go of something new every day.

The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.

A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.

In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor.

Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.

The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.

Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

Over time even two armed blind men in a room can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.

When managers have got decisions to make, whether it benefits me or not, I have to be man enough to take it.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.

I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.

Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.

I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.

In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.

The man who broods over the past can never master the difficulties of today. Every wise man learn to forget.

Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.

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