As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man—the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn’t exist.
Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.
Any man worth his salt would like to have his own business.
Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people’s blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed.
Any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man.
And any man who must say ‘I am the king’ is no true king at all.
An unmarried man, in my opinion, enjoys only half a life.
An American monkey, an Ateles, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus was wiser than many men.
After coming in contact with a religious man, I always feel that I must wash my hands.[Ich habe nöthig, mir die Hände nach der Berührung mit religiösen Menschen zu waschen…]
A young man can be most surely corrupted when he is taught to value the like-minded more highly than the differently minded.[Man verdirbt einen Jüngling am sichersten, wenn man ihn anleitet, den Gleichdenkenden höher zu achten, als den Andersdenkenden.]
A woman who gives any advantage to a man – may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
