Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.