To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia... ...Wolfe seemed absorbed… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender.… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish.” — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“everything from war to picnics depends on the weather, as Wolfe remarked” — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold -- if you have one. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“When we turned right on Thirty-fifth Street our suffix came along. By the time we rolled to the curb in front of Wolfe's house… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
