Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. – Henry Miller
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. – Gustave Flaubert
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. – Henri Frederic Amiel
A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn’t pay his bill, so he gave him another six months. – Henny Youngman
While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. – H. G. Wells
A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. – Garson Kanin
The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. – Howard Staunton
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. – Homer The Iliad, Book 9.
I’m really boring, man. Like, I’m really dull. And I think people may think that I have this glamorous, fun lifestyle, but it’s pretty dull. But that’s what I like. – Harry Connick, Jr.
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. – Henry Adams
The world of Manhattan is small and tightly knit, and the man on top retains a certain humility. He knows how far and fast he can fall by looking at the guy across the street. The view from the $250,000 apartment covers a lot of ground, most of it condemned. – Herb Caen
It isn’t tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it’s separating himself from all the others. – Helen Rowland
When a man makes a woman his wife, it’s the highest compliment he can pay her, and it’s usually the last. – Helen Rowland
Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. – Herman Melville
The Legislature, which was elected under the Constitution framed and supported by colored men, declared that a man having more than an eighth of African blood in his veins was ineligible to office or a seat in the Legislature of the State of Georgia. – Hiram Rhodes Revels
I feel sorry for the man who marries you… because everyone thinks you’re sweet and you’re not. – Harold Brodkey
Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not. – Howard Staunton
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends. – Giorgos Seferis
I work like a dog, really. I go over scripts like a mad man and just want to make sure I have my house built, so that I can just kind of go nuts inside of it. – Haley Webb
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man – he must view the man in his world. – Harvey Cushing
Whereas economic man maximises, selects the best alternative from among all those available to him, his cousin, administrative man, satisfices, looks for a course of action that is satisfactory or ‘good enough’. – Herbert A. Simon
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one. – Hesiod
I still get called ‘a stick of dynamite’ or ‘pint-sized dynamo,’ stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren’t many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man. – Garry Hynes
My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times. – Hillary Clinton