That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.
I am an unmarried man, as opposed to a single man. A bachelor, according to the dictionary, is a man who has never been married. An unmarried man is not married at the moment. Many of these terms have fallen into disuse.
Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
Man flieht nicht, weil man Angst hat, sondern man hat Angst, weil man flieht.
The nail supports the hoof, the hoof the horse, the horse the man, the man the world.
The wise man will be cheated only once.
The poor looks for food and the rich man for appetite.
What does the blind man know of the beauty of the tulip?
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.
... it is quite funny really when you think that probably I would have married him if he'd been at all clever about it. But instead of putting it to me as a sensible business proposition he would drag in all this talk about love the whole time, and I...
Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks or gifts or fortune. Tom loved all of them passionately, but he felt heavy and earth-bound. He climbe...
The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry by a relatively tiny oligarchy of extremely clever financial criminals and their castrato henchmen in government, whose jo...
