I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.
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.
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.
There is a pinch of the madman in every great man.
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.
As a young man, he had instinctively husbanded the freshness of his powers. At the time, it was too soon to see that this freshness was giving birth to vivacity and gaiety, and shape to the courage needed to forge a soul that does not pale, no matter...
Yet, for my part, I was never usually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary. I am glad to have drunk water so long, for the same reason that I prefer the natural sky to an opium-eater’s heaven. I woul...
Women's liberation is one thing, but the permeation of anti-male sentiment in post-modern popular culture - from our mocking sitcom plots to degrading commercial story lines - stands testament to the ignorance of society. Fair or not, as the lead gen...
Wise Blood was written by an author congenitally innocent of theory, but one with certain preoccupations. That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no g...
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.
Praise makes a bad man worse.
A brave man seldom is hurt in the back.
Happy is the man without sickness. Rich is the man with no debts.
There's a pinch of the madman in every great man.
An old man loved is winter with flowers.
When an old man marries, death laughs.
