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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

It is rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it is Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

Women is fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It is men is way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they are actually tied up.

All men of action are dreamers.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.