Man pines to live but cannot endure the days of his life.

Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.

A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall.

I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.

We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.

Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.

We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.