“But she was not made for any man, And she never will be all mine.”— Edna St. Vincent Millay, amazon.com
“A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”— Percy Bysshe Shelley, amazon.com
“There is a house above the world, where the over-people gather. There is a man with wings like a bird. There is a man who can see across the planet and wring diamonds from its anthracite. There is a man who moves so fast that his life is an endless gallery of statues. In the house above the world, t…”— Alan Moore, amazon.com
“There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.”— Samuel Beckett, amazon.com
“No one can tell another man is true. Truth is all around us...Truth is where ever man has glimpsed divinity.”— Gore Vidal, amazon.com
“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com
“War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com
“With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com
“If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.”— E. B. White, amazon.com
“Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?”— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com
“The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature w…”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“Man’s life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.”— Herman Hesse, amazon.com
“Man, as we say, is a tame or civilized animal; nevertheless, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.”— Plato, amazon.com
“To me, a man is someone who is brave enough to love, and let himself be loved.”— Louis Sachar, amazon.com
“When you have children, you always have family. They will always be your priority, your responsibility. And a man, a man provides. And he does it even when he’s not appreciated or respected or even loved. He simply bears up and he does it. Because he’s a man.”— Gus Fring, Giancarlo Esposito, amazon.com