I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.
Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
In my lifetime, as a younger man, you were assumed to be an honest person. Your word was your bond, and a handshake was as good as a contract in business.
Shoes are everything. You can tell more about a man from his shoes than his handshake, because they tell where you're going.
A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
Seeing my father's handwriting puts me in contact with the man he was at each stage of his life.
Some people can be president, some people can speak, some people, you know, anything that's positive, man - a dentist, a doctor. Just hang in there and never give up, and find out what is your talent. First you got to find your talent and just stick with your talent, and I guarantee you'll get there, man.
As a young actor, I was advised to bide my time. Back then, there weren't good roles for someone like me. There were handsome leading men and character actors for smaller supporting roles. But I was told to hang in there, and it was good advice. We're all character actors now. Even a handsome man is a character actor at my age.
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.
If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was not viewed by many white Americans as black. He was not seen as the African American athlete who was rebellious: Jim Brown, Muhammad Ali, Hank Aaron... He was accepted in golf clubs that were very tony.
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
