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When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch.

When a man gives his opinion | Bette Davis

The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.

The male ego | Bette Davis

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom – one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

John Keats | definition of a proud man

Man’s nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.

George Simmel | Man, Nature

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.

Paul Ricoeur | Man

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Bhagavad Gita – Man, belief

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

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