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| Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell. | | Seneca | |
| From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free. | | Jacques Cousteau | |
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| God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. | | Robin Williams | |
| Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to e | | Buddha | |
| He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise. | | Voltaire | |
| He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. | | Epictetus | |
| He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man | | William Shakespeare | |
| How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| How can people hold these opinions? What joy can we find in the expectation of nothing but hopeless misery? What reason for boasting that we are in impenetrable darkness? And how can it happen that the following argument occurs to a reasonable man? | | Blaise Pascal | |
| Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason. | | Ashley Montagu | |
| I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man | | Michel de Montaigne | |
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| I like men who have a future and women who have a past | | Oscar Wilde | |
| I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection | | Thomas Paine | |
| I only like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. | | Mae West | |
| I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us. | | Sacha Guitry | |
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| I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. | | Anais Nin | |
| If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life. | | Albert Schweitzer | |
