“A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.”

“A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”

“A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.”

“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”

“It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.”

“A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock — this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness!”

“I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.”

“So much of our profession is taken up with pretending … that an actor must spend at least half his waking hours in fantasy.”

“A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.”