We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.
I lead my life as normal.
I'm sick of playing romantic leads.
A wise man will not rebuke a fool.
It's not the beauty of a woman that blinds the man, the man blinds himself.
The fly has no pity for the thin man.
For a wise man a fool is a good advisor.
There is a pinch of the madman in every great man.
To question a wise man is the beginning of wisdom.
A rich man has no need of character.
The spouse of a woman is a man, the spouse of a man is his livelihood.
A powerful man has big ears.
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gentl...
In his mind, Inman likened the swirling paths of vulture flight to the coffee grounds seeking pattern in his cup. Anyone could be oracle for the random ways things fall against each other. It was simple enough to tell fortunes if a man dedicated hims...
There comes a time in a man's life, if he is unlucky and leads a full life, when he has a secret so dirty that he knows he never will get rid of it. (Shakespeare knew this and tried to say it, but he said it just as badly as anyone ever said it. 'All...
It can even be thought that radium could become very dangerous in criminal hands, and here the question can be raised whether mankind benefits from knowing the secrets of Nature, whether it is ready to profit from it or whether this knowledge will no...
Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational attitude which springs from intoxication with dreams of a beautiful world is what I call Romanticism. It may se...
Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the...
My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic.
God is the Man, and there's another Man, Stan 'The Man' Musial in St. Louis.
