Age Quote by E. B. White

What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?

— Anonymous

One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them,…

— Richard Russo

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

— Alistair Cooke

“But a man is not often found sufficiently circumspect to know how to accommodate himself to the change, both because he cannot deviate from…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads

— Ayn Rand

Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

— Ruth Benedict

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

— Anthony Trollope

True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of…

— William Wordsworth

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the…

— Jean de la Bruyere

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.

— Andre Maurois