Isn't wine prohibited here?" the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
How many young men fear that there is a monster inside them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves. People are supposed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.
You are dehydrated," I said. "The result of alcohol taken in excess. But that is the only way to take it. It is the only way to do a man any good.
So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.
When the time comes for you to leave this earth, if it doesn’t become a lesser place with your absence, then you have wasted your life.
We fell, but we never let the box fall from our hands. Then we ran. We ran blindly, and men and houses streaked past us in a torrent without shape.
There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.
Do you want to know why men name their penis? So the most important decisions in their life aren't made by a stranger.
In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels.
True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis. ~ Albert Einstein
I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
Wars are all fought by men who either believe they are right or who have no other choice. How they fight defines who they are when the blood stops flowing.
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal, while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before
Whores, Anna once read, make the very best wives. They are accustomed to the varying moods of men, they keep their broken hearts to themselves, and easy women always ease through grief.
You have not known very many men." "I have no wish to know any others. I love this one.
No man will ever be whole and dignified and free except in the knowledge that the men around him are whole and dignified and free, and that the world itself is free of contempt and misuse.
I drink coffee the way most men tie their shoes, and I’m liable to slip on a sip if I don’t follow their lead.
I drink coffee the way other men put on their pants—only after they’ve paid the hooker.
I realised when it came to men, I did not pick the beautiful or the correct. I picked the wrong one.
