To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.
My mum died of leukemia when I was in high school - she lost her life at 40. It was very hard, and I didn't do that much in Chicago after that. I actually sat around and didn't do anything for three years. I didn't know what I wanted to do anymore because my everything was gone. I was a mama's boy, and I had to turn into a man real quick.
Jesting and levity accustom a man to lewdness.
I look forward to the day when being called 'another Monica Lewinsky' refers to the hard work behind a master's degree in social psychology from the London School of Economics, after spending the first act of one's life deflecting the shame of a scandal that should have rested on the shoulders of a man old enough to have known better.
I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.
Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington.
There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.
No woman ever lived who could compete with a man on an equal basis - even a 55-year-old man. There's a lot of talk about Women's Lib. They feel they're worth as much as the guys, but they can't play a lick if they can't beat a 55-year-old guy.
I am a big believer in women's lib, but I love when a man holds a door for me.
The real Liberace - and I'll preface this by saying that I didn't know the real one - was a man who didn't come from much. His father left him and his family for another woman. His father was a musician, which I thought was pretty interesting.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
The man of the millennium is much more liberated than the man of the '90s.
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.
