Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful; provided you get between the right man and the right woman.

There was a man once who said that mothers carry the key of our souls with them all our lives. But you threw mine away

Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.

I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities.

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

Tens of thousands of men and women with kids to raise, bills to pay, and dreams that won't die. This is your campaign.

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.

He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.

Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all.

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted.

It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.

A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.

No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.

Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

The ancient Egyptians used to say: if you say a man's name, he is alive. I take this opportunity to say, Jim Morrison.

The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness

When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.

A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.

As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.

The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.

Everybody is different. I can think of three black men I've dated and they couldn't be more different from each other.

But men and women, getting along, it's a joke. We have completely different brains, it's a completely different thing.

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

If you please man and never please God, you have nothing; if you please God and man forsakes you, you have everything.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

Without food, man at most can live but a few weeks; without it all other components of social justice are meaningless.

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

I can't pinpoint a period in history or a place in the universe where religion has actually helped the welfare of man.

A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches

We really must keep under control, and pretty strict control, the area within which 'The Man in Whitehall' knows best.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap.

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