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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Samuel Johnson – Man

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

Oscar Wilde – Man, Woman, Love

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Oscar Wilde – Friendship, Man, Woman

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

George Bernard Shaw – Man, Richness

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

Eric Hoffer – Man

A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so oft over and over.

Francis Bacon – Daily Life

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson – Man, trust

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson – Man, God

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Henry Brooks Adams – Man

I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.

salman Rushdie – Envy

If men gave birth, they’d be less inconsiderate

Gabriel García Marquez – Man

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

Thomas Hardy – Man vs Woman

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Albert Camus – Man

And much it grieved my heart to think what man has made of man

Mankind

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Samuel Butler on man



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