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Man Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin
- A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.
- Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.
- Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.
- Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.
- How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.
- Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.
- The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
- I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper,…
- It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle