“Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with Man is Man.”

“Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book The Master of Ballantrae

“The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.”

Rebecca West (1892–1983) British feminist and author

“Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.”

Джош Биллингс (Генри Уиллер Шоу) (1818–1885)

“Keep me alive. Keep me alive long enough for me to conquer the animal within myself. Long enough for me to learn to partner myself with a woman who is better and stronger than me. Long enough for me to reconcile myself with my brothers. Long enough to be as good a man as my father, and as good as my mother, too.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

“A man who trusts everyone is a fool, and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools, if we live long enough.”

Robert Jordan Winter's Heart

“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

“When you have a divergence of man's will from God's Will for long enough, disaster comes.”

Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) artist, author, esotericist

“Women think of being a man as a gift. It is a duty. Even making love can be a duty. A man has always got to get it up, and love isn't always enough.”

Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate

“One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.”

Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union