For every wise man there is one still wiser.
A learned man has always wealth in himself.
After all, every man is the son of a woman.
What the poor man says is not listened to.
A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost.
The rich man doesn't pay, the debtor does.
The rich man who is stingy is the worst pauper.
He who lets another sit on his shoulder will soon have him on his head.
No sooner have you spoken than what you have said becomes the property of another.
The best thing God did was to make one day follow another.
(about William Blake) As for Blake's happiness--a man who knew him said: "If asked whether I ever knew among the intellectual, a happy man, Blake would be the only one who would immediately occur to me." And yet this creative power in Blake did not c...
A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
Learn to love and broke man to marry a good man.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Everything in woman is a riddle, and everything in woman hath one solution —it is called pregnancy. Man is for woman a means: the purpose is always the child. But what is woman for man? Two different things wanted the true man: danger and diversion...
[Unser Leben] ist unüberwindlich verworren nur dann, wen man an sich denkt; aber in dem Augenblick, wo man nicht an sich denkt, sondern sich fragt, wie man einem anderen helfen könne, ist es sehr einfach.
I have believed the best of every man, and find that to believe it is enough to make a bad man show him at his best or even a good man swing his lantern higher.
A little man often cast a long shadow.
