For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what a man really is give him power.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.

Fresh sneakers are important on a man. It's like a new pair of boxers or a new pair of socks.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

The more the panic grows, the more uplifting the image of a man who refuses to bow to the terror.

If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

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