Stubborn Sign

Man is what he reads. - Joseph Brodsky

Man is what he believes. - Anton Chekov

The Child is father of the Man. - William Wordsworth

What is a rebel? A man who says no. - Albert Camus

Time ripens all things, no man is born wise. - Miguel de Cervantes

Character, not circumstances, makes the man. - Booker T. Washington

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. - Oscar Wilde

Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them. - Robert G Ingersoll

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love. - Frank O'Hara

Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond. - Miguel de Cervantes

Women with pasts interest men. They hope history will repeat itself. - Mae West

Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not? - Luciano Pavarotti

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. - Baltasar Gracian

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste they hurry past it. - Soren Kierkegaard

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented. - Andre Gide

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. - Frank Lloyd Wright

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. - Oscar Wilde

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence. - Art Linkletter

Man may be the captain of his fate, but is also the victim of his blood sugar. - Wilfrid G. Oakley

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. - Henry David Thoreau

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. - Seneca

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. - Samuel Johnson

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches. - Will Rogers

A man who wants to do something will find a way; a man who doesn't will find an excuse. - Stephen Dolley Jr.

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place... a man is lucky to get out of it alive. - WC Fields

Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. - Montaigne

We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves. - Prince Philip

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. - H L Mencken

What can be added to the happiness of man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? - Adam Smith

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. - Oscar Wilde

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. - Rollo May

Sometimes a man just can't satisfy all of a woman's desires. Which is why God invented dental floss. - Unknown

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. - Aldous Huxley

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. - Plato

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking and writing. - Isaac B Singer

Just think how far we've come in the 20th Century. The man who used to be a cog in the wheel is now a digit in the computer. - Robert Fuoss

In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high. - Henry David Thoreau

The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He never tries anything new. He is a brake on the wheels of progress. - M.W. Larmour

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that, to break a man's spirit, is devil's work. - George Bernard Shaw