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33 Confucius say... foolish man give wife grand piano, wise man give wife upright organ.
36 Confucius say... find blind man on nude beach, not hard.
40 Confucius say... man who sleep like a baby doesn’t have one.
45 Confucius say... man who cooks carrots and peas in same pot, very unsanitary.
49 Confucius say... man in bathroom with tool in hand is not necessarily a plumber.
50 Confucius say... man who walk through airport turnstile sideways going to Bangkok.
54 I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.
89 Two fish were in a tank. One said "You man the guns, I'll drive!".
90 Did you hear about the man that got cooled to absolute zero? He's 0K...
97 The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forev…
129 Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. <BR>…
134 The only problem with being a man of leisure is that you can never stop and take a rest.
160 A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. <BR> -- John Barrymore
173 The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. <BR> -- Ma…
219 Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented. <BR> -- Leo Rosten
224 The more a man knows, the more he forgives. <BR> -- Catherine the Great
227 You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. <BR>…
230 The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. <BR> -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
234 Good luck is with the man who doesn't include it in his plan. <BR> -- Graffitti
242 Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are. <BR> -- Thomas Carlyle
255 Reflect upon your present blessings - of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, o…
262 The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. <BR> -- Chinese Proverb
280 The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. <BR> -- Bishop W.C. Magee
292 The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart. <BR> -- Benjami…
301 An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. <BR> -- Niel…
310 The difference between a coward and a brave man is usually a matter of timing. <BR> -- Robert Heinl…
316 A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. <BR> -- Mark Twa…
318 Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. <BR> -- Mark Twain
319 … he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. <BR> -- Mark Twain
321 …ulls of Christopher Columbus, "one when he was a boy and one when he was a man". <BR> -- Mark Twain
341 My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards'. <BR> -- R.A. Heinlein
342 Never judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. Then when you do judge him, you'll be a …
352 A diplomat is a man who can convince his wife she'd look stout in a fur coat.
357 A man of convictions, none of them pending. <BR> -- David Letterman of Oliver North
358 A youth becomes a man when the marks he wants to leave on the world have nothing to do with tyres.
423 Philosophy 101: If a man speaks in the woods, and a woman is not there to hear him, is he still wro…
442 A man is like a fine wine. He starts out raw as grapes, and it's a woman's job to stomp on him and …
457 If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost... you can still call him vile names. <BR> --…
464 The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man w…
488 …foreseeable and undesirable consequences, seems to be intolerable to modern man. <BR> -- F.A. Hayek
490 If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? <BR> …
509 A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half of his life.
510 A man's reach should exceed its grasp. <BR> -- Browning
511 A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
512 A man who throws dirt loses ground.
562 …e left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat.
569 I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.
638 Under capitalism man exploits man. Under socialism it's just the opposite. <BR> -- Anon
641 Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat & dri…
642 When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man ar…
644 It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. <BR> -- Scott Elledge, on his …
687 The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. <BR> -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1…
691 NEW YORK, NY. A man was knocked down by a car and got up uninjured, but lay back down in front of t…
696 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be i…
711 Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. <BR> -- C. G. Jung (1875-1961)
721 I would like to be able to admire a man's opinions as I would his dog, without being expected to ta…
746 … will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of wa…
752 Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is no…
766 When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package. <BR> -- John Ruskin (1819-1900)
782 Wisdom is a comb given to a man once he is bald. (Irish proverb)
806 The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and e…
816 A man with a new idea is a crank until he succeeds. <BR> -- Mark Twain
818 A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. <BR> -- Mark Twain
819 A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose. <BR> -- …
823 A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his …
826 By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. <BR> -- Mark Twain
846 I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the huma…
847 I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. <BR> -- …
854 If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance. <BR> -- Mark Twain
861 I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices. <BR> -- Mark Twain
864 Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity -- these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the …
867 I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way. <BR> -- Mark Twain
868 … and I know they are dangerous. Also, sinful. If a man should challenge me now I would go to that …
878 …washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man" - with his mouth. …
886 …de the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve…
888 Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his …
889 One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity there ain't nothing ca…
898 The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures…
909 There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when…
970 Remember the wise words of the old Indian saying: "Before you criticize a man's collection of colum…
977 … seven years of war, plagues, famines, and sitting in a small room while a man named "Nate" explai…
990 The typical Nintendo game involves controlling a little man who runs around on the screen trying to…
991 …man on the screen becomes highly suicidal. If he can't locate a hostile force to get killed by, he…
1039 Today's man knows that he's supposed to be a sensitive and caring relationship partner, and he's ma…
1194 Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. <BR> -- Louis La Roch…
1201 There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.…
1232 Don't jump on a man unless he's down. <BR> -- Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936), U.S. humorist
1278 Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide. <BR> -- Woodrow Wilson, (1856-1924), U.S. Pre…
1279 Never play cards with a man named Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman …
1281 Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black mustache. <BR> -- P. …
1321 A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. <BR> -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (1806-1861)…
1344 It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy. <BR> -- Red Smith (1…
1350 No wise man ever wished to be younger. <BR> -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Irish author
1419 I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the d…
1427 A dog is a man's best friend. A cat is a cat's best friend. <BR> -- Robert J. Vogel
1428 A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy…
1443 If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. <BR> -…
1446 …e left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat…
1455 The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. <BR> -- Doug La…
1460 When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it …
1465 A dog is a yes-animal, very popular with people who can't afford to keep a yes-man. <BR> -- Roberts…
1486 Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. <BR> -- Corey Ford (1902-1969), U.S. humorist
1490 …ill have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will …
1493 To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. <BR> -- Aldous Huxley (18…
1517 A man is usually bald four or five years before he knows it. <BR> -- Ed Howe (1853-1937)
1557 A rich man's joke is always funny. <BR> -- Thomas Edward Brown (1830-1897), British poet
1559 Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. <BR> -- Fred Allen (18…
1612 A critic is a legless man who teaches running. <BR> -- Channing Pollack, The Green Book
1613 A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. <BR> -- Kenneth Tynan, British theatre…
1622 Many a man's profanity has saved him from a nervous breakdown. <BR> -- Henry S. Haskins
1651 No sane man will dance. <BR> -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (160-43 B.C.), Roman philosopher
1652 Account ye no man happy till he die. <BR> -- Euripedes, (ca. 496-406), Greek dramatist
1681 Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me -- I quit." <BR> --Bill Maher, on Politica…
1713 Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet. <BR> …
1716 I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house. <BR> -- Zsa Zsa Gabor, (19…
1728 Whenever I date a guy, I think, "Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?" …
1734 Although man is already ninety percent water, the Prohibitionists are not yet satisfied. <BR> -- Jo…
1749 Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime! <BR> -- Bill Owen
1784 Wine maketh glad the heart of man. <BR> -- Psalms: 104:15
1785 Wine, which cheereth God and man. <BR> -- Judges 9:13
1813 The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it. <BR> -- James Ag…
1837 In England I would rather be a man, a horse, a dog or a woman, in that order. In American I would t…
1841 A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs. <BR> -- Joan Welsh
1872 No man is responsible for his father; that is entirely his mother's affair. <BR> -- Margaret Turnbu…
1873 A man's tie should never be louder than his wife. <BR> -- John Hughes
1943 My best friend would be the man who blew my brains out with a pistol. <BR> -- Edgar Allan Poe (1804…
1952 Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you. <BR> -- Elbert Hubbard U.S. e…
1961 Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a big unchivalrous. <BR> --…
1981 I am only an average man, but, by George, I work at it harder than the average man. <BR> -- Theodor…
1987 …I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire? <BR> -- Zsa …
1992 It is a cursed evil to any man to become so absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. <BR> -- Charle…
2026 Every man has the right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him…
2036 Make yourself an honest man and then you can be sure there is one rascal less in the world. <BR> --…
2046 There are times and countries when the only place for an honest man is in jail. <BR> -- Thomas Mann…
2052 Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie. <BR> -- Michel de M…
2063 All that I care to know is that a man is a human being -- that is enough for me; he can't be any wo…
2064 Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughe…
2066 Every man has a sane spot somewhere. <BR> -- Robert Louis Stevenson (1854-1894), English author
2067 Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin s…
2072 I believe I've found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It's us. <BR> -- Konrad Lor…
2075 I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough t…
2077 I haven't much doubt that man sprang from the monkey, but where did the monkey spring from? <BR> -…
2084 It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. <BR> -- Albert Einstein…
2122 God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer an honest man. <BR> -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790…
2126 If half the lawyers would become plumbers, two of man's biggest problems would be solved. <BR> -- F…
2161 It is when the gods hate a man with uncommon abhorrence that they drive him into the profession of …
2237 It is better to have loved a small man than never to have loved a tall. <BR> -- Mary Jo Crowley, Co…
2253 Two things only a man cannot hide: that he is drunk and that he is in love. <BR> -- Antiphanes (c.3…
2259 If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? <BR> --Stanislaw J. Lec
2272 As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. <BR> --…
2276 Call no man unhappy until he is married. <BR> -- Socrates (469-399 B.C.), Greek philosopher/teacher
2289 If I ever marry it will be on sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself. <BR> -- H. L. Mencken (1880-…
2298 Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. <BR> -- Stephen Leac…
2314 One man's folly is another man's wife. <BR> -- Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950), English-American writer
2328 What God has put asunder, why should man put it together? <BR> -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1883),…
2329 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. <BR> -- Sacha Gui…
2331 Why does the blind man's wife paint herself? <BR> -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Poor Richard (…
2335 A red-headed man will make a good stallion. <BR> -- John Ray (1628-1705), English naturalist
2379 A man is so in the way in the house. <BR> -- Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865), English novelist
2380 A man who won't lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings. <BR> -- Olin Miller
2381 A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. <BR> -- Flo Kennedy (1916-2000), political …
2385 Behind every successful man stands a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law. <BR> -- Brooks Hayes…
2386 Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job. <BR> -- Erica Jong (…
2390 Every man loves the smell of his own farts. <BR> -- Icelandic proverb
2391 Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him of th…
2392 Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. <BR>…
2393 God created man because he was so disappointed in the monkey. <BR> -- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
2395 God invented man and I can do better than that. <BR> -- Erma Bombeck (1927-1996), 1982
2397 He took misfortune like a man -- blamed it on his wife. <BR> -- Brigid De Vine
2399 I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped. <BR> -- Feodor Dostoevski (1821-1881)…
2402 I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back. <BR> -- Zsa Zsa Gabor (ca. 1918--), Hollywood…
2403 I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire? <BR> -- Zsa Z…
2405 If man is only a little lower than the angels, the angels should reform. <BR> -- Mary Wilson Little…
2409 It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the by-laws are shorter, and he …
2410 Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house -- in the bedroom he's asleep with his int…
2431 No man is ever old enough to know better. <BR> -- Holbrook Jackson, Ladies' Home Journal (January, …
2433 Talking with a man is like trying to saddle a cow. You work like hell, but what's the point. <BR> -…
2435 The fastest way to a man's heart is through his chest. <BR> -- Roseanne Barr, (1953--), U.S. comic
2439 The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. <BR> -- Margo Kaufman, U.S. wri…
2440 The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby. <BR> -- Natalie Wood, …
2444 You know, sometimes a man just can't satisfy all of a woman's desires. Which is why God invented de…
2445 A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. And a p…
2466 A man can live well enough even in a palace. <BR> -- Marcus Aurelius (121-180), Roman philosopher/E…
2467 A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich. <BR> -- John Jacob Astor II
2473 I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries. <BR> -- Jules Renar…
2476 I think every young man should have a hobby. Learning to handle money is the best hobby. <BR> -- Ja…
2504 Behind every successful man is surprised mother-in-law. <BR> -- Hubert Humphrey (1911-1978), U.S. V…
2537 A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconciously tran…
2543 If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unl…
2547 It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence whic…
2548 It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a …
2551 …s great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. <BR> -- Bertrand R…
2553 …great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever …
2554 …unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in la…
2585 Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with h…
2607 A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
2613 Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from hist…
2624 Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. <BR> -- George Bernard …
2628 …appier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a s…
2630 …man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to him…
2636 A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. <BR> -- George Ber…
2637 The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. <BR> -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 …
2642 One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. <BR> -- George …
2645 "Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates th…
2648 When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. <BR>…
2658 Beware of the man whose God is in the skies. <BR> -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
2660 Every man over forty is a scoundrel. <BR> -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
2679 A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. <BR> -- H. L. Mencken (188…
2689 Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. <BR> -- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
2693 Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. <B…
2697 It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. <BR> -- H. L. Menc…
2698 It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were …
2702 It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. <BR> -- H. L. Mencken (…
2706 Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another. <BR> -- H. L. Mencken (1880 - …
2726 The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable ac…
2730 An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. <BR> …
2732 Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. <BR> …
2735 Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. <BR> -- Lauren…
2744 The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. <BR> -- Lau…
2749 A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. <BR> -- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
2786 What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. <BR> -- Oscar W…
2789 Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes …
2794 One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upo…
2799 A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. <BR> -- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
2803 …ces for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too caref…
2813 When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again,…
2814 Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. <BR> -- Oscar…
2822 Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him. <BR> -- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 200…
2830 I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's…
2841 …ith destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we wil…
2852 When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?' …
2881 Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of e…
2887 The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. …
2894 An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. <BR> -- Thoma…
2923 The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5'7", it is impossible to get …
2925 Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a bever…
2965 It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. <BR> -- Sir Winston Churchill…
3010 … have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I didn't like.…
3044 A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her... but she can never forgive him for the sacrifi…
3049 A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on. <BR> -- Fred Allen (1894-1956), U.…
3051 The story of modern America begins With the discovery of the white man by The Indians. <BR> -- Mars…
3062 The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. <B…
3102 Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: version…
3218 A male chauvinist is a man who thinks that "harass" is two words. <BR> -- The proprietor, Ballandea…
3226 Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself. <BR> -- Weiler's Law
3390 If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy man - he will find an easier way to do it. <BR> -- …
3430 The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on. <BR> -- Jones…
3595 A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
3605 A man on a date wonders if he'll get lucky. The woman already knows.
3611 A smart man covers his ass, a wise man leaves his pants on.
3625 An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
3679 Early to rise, and early to bed, makes a man healthy but socially dead.
3689 Every man has his price. Mine is $3.95.
3752 I'm not normally a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman!
3758 If a man tells a woman she's beautiful she'll overlook most of his other lies.
3802 In the dark I hold your hand, because in the light you look like a man.
3811 Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
3837 Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots.
3843 Never call a man a fool. Borrow from him.
3846 Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with a baseball bat.
3903 The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
3904 The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
4034 Every man is as God made him; ay, and often worse. <BR> --Miguel de Cervantes
4101 If one gave me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them…
4113 A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him th…
4120 Now I don't know, but I been told In the heat of the sun a man died of cold. Keep on coming or stan…
4168 Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. <BR> -- …
4174 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
4204 A dyslexic man walks into a bra.