No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.

Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by his imagination to be anything above a cavalryman, a theologian or a corporation director.

What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, and all-embracing tolerance--in brief,what is commonly called sportsmanship.

But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts.

All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good.

Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a bit more careful next time.