An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too and that maketh him very wary.
~ Lord Halifax
A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered it is something moulded.
~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
Egotism: the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
~ George Higgins
Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.
~ Phaedrus
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals.
~ G. C. Lichtenberg
If you can't bite don't show your teeth.
~ Old Saying
Know him know me.
~ Dizzy Gillespie
Man who man would be must rule the empire of himself.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
No man does anything from a single motive.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nobody can honestly think of himself as a strong character because however successful he may be in overcoming them he is necessarily aware of the doubts and temptations that accompany every important choice.
~ W. H. Auden
We carry with us the wonders we seek without us.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
What the collective age wants allows and approves is the perpetual holiday from the self.
~ Thomas Mann
When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
~ John Ruskin
Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain?
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.
~ George Santayana
With every physical pain my moral fibre unravels a little.
~ Mason Cooley
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
~ Michel De Montaigne
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self.
~ Cyril Connolly
One may understand the cosmos but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.
~ G. K. Chesterton
