Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
~ John Dryden
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
~ Jane Austen
The first thought that I had about really trying to get sober was, 'Man, I could do a lot of good in the world. I can lead by example and just be this heroic recovery guy.' And that's just a bad reason to get sober. You can't get sober for anybody's benefit, let alone the world at large. You really got to do it for yourself.
~ Steve-O
My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone.
~ Leonard Cohen
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
~ Henry David Thoreau
In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
~ John Barrymore
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
~ Octavio Paz
I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.
~ Mother Jones
These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these.
~ Athanasius
Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
~ Charlotte Whitton
I think one can easily make a case for taking out Saddam Hussein. In fact, one could probably be made on humanitarian grounds alone. But just as there's a downside risk to doing nothing about this man, there is a very serious downside risk to invading the country.
~ Molly Ivins
Were there no contrariety of interests, nothing would be more simple and easy than to form and preserve free institutions. The right of suffrage alone would be a sufficient guarantee. It is the conflict of opposing interests which renders it the most difficult work of man.
~ John C. Calhoun
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.
~ Chief Joseph
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
~ Cesare Pavese
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
~ William Temple
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
~ Boethius
Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?
~ Stephen Vizinczey
Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
~ John Hannah
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
~ Stewart Udall
Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
~ Ted Danson
I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.
~ Jello Biafra
There is nothing of greater importance to the well-being of society at large - of man as well as woman - than the true proper position of woman.
~ Lucretia Mott
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
~ Simone De Beauvoir
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
~ Betty Friedan
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
~ Margaret Oliphant
No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.
~ Lal Bahadur Shastri
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
~ John Burroughs
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
~ Ernest Gaines
There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
~ Doris Lessing
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
~ Alan Paton
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
~ Voltaire
It is right to give every man his due.
~ Plato
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
I've always said that at the end of the day, on a legal issue, I think a wise old woman and a wise old man are going to reach the same conclusion.
~ Sandra Day O'connor
The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him.
~ Jon Stewart
It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.
~ Ernestine Rose
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
~ Addison Mizner
