“It is with life just as with swimming; that man is the most expert who is the most disengaged from all encumbrances.”

“For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister

“A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

“The just man is most free from disturbance, while the unjust is full of the utmost disturbance.”

Epicurus (-341–-269 BC) ancient Greek philosopher

“Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

“You are a lucky lady to be marrying a man who can fix things. Most husbands just break things.”

Alexander McCall Smith book Morality for Beautiful Girls

“I find above all that the expression, "atonal music," is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying "the art of not falling," or swimming "the art of not drowning."”

Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) Austrian-American composer

“In the ice of solitude man becomes most inexorably a question to himself, and just because the question pitilessly summons and draws into play his most secret life he becomes an experience to himself.”

Martin Buber (1878–1965) German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian

“In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life.
The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator