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No man can write who is not first a humanitarian

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.

A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.

There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those who laughed at the first.

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find out how many men were killed at this particular action.

[Wladimir] Klitschko is a different kettle of fish to Haye. He is a genuine man with an excellent team behind him and they are genuine fighting people.

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.

Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.

Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.

Although man is already ninety per cent water, the Prohibitionists are not yet satisfied.

The two of them simply weren't attracted to just any attractive, eligible man; they were attracted rarely, but when it happened, it was evidently a life-altering experience.

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

I think men know to seduce women though words and conversation and nice gestures. That's much sexier than when a man uses muscle.

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

The only leading man I ever had a crush on was James Garner.

The man that does not fear punishment, little regards crime.

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.