For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are 'It might have been.'

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

We have the finest food, the finest equipment, the best spirit, and the best men in the world. Why, by God, I actually pity those poor sons-of-bitches we're going up against. By God, I do.

Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real men like to fight.

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art.

In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.

The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.

A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.

Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative forces and can assert one's will over long periods of time — in the form of legislation, religions, and customs.

Often a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.

Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.