The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman.
Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.
The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.
Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.
A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.
A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.
If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.
There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
People think that the poor are not as wise as the rich, for if a man be wise, why is he poor?
The success of a man is through the soles of his feet, that of a woman is from her legs.
