A real Centauröpart man, part horse's ass. A rough appraisal, but curiously true.

-Acheson, Dean Gooderham
  Of President  Johnson.13  Apr.

He had a fear of the dead, and of all inanimate things, rising up around himto claim him; it isthe fearof thepre- eminently solitary child and solitary man.

-Ackroyd, Peter
  Of Charles Dickens. Dickens, prologue.

Sir Roger told them, with the air of a man who would not give his judgement rashly, that much might be said on both sides.

-Addison,Joseph
  In The Spectator, no.122, 20  Jul.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

-Addison,Joseph
  In The Spectator, no.494, 26 Sep.

Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.

-Addison,Joseph
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

It's a man's joböno place for women's plans here!öwhat lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.

-Aeschylus
Septem contra Thebas, l.200^1 (translated by C M Dawson).

   Girlsareso queer youneverknow whattheymean.They say no when they mean yes, and drive a man out of his wits just for the fun of it.

-Alcott, Louisa May
  Little Women, pt.2, ch.35.

The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And ordered their estate.

-Alexander, Cecil Frances
  'All Things Bright and Beautiful'.

For the normal business of living man is most at ease on the ground.

-Allsop, (Harold) Bruce
  A Modern Theory of  Architecture.

The phenomenon of architecture is a development of the phenomenon of man.

-Allsop, (Harold) Bruce
  A Modern Theory of  Architecture.

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; Girls aren't like that. See Byron181:73.

-Amis, Sir Kingsley
  'A Bookshop Idyll'.

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in. See also Connolly 233:82.

-Amis, Sir Kingsley
  One Fat Englishman, ch.3.

I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.

-Amis, Sir Kingsley
  Dissociating himself from that literary grouping, in The Eton College Chronicle,  Jun.

You're sitting in a room with male writers and you say something and it's ignored.You say it again and it's ignored.Then a manwill say it and everyonegoes'That's brilliant'.

-Ancona, Ronni
  In the Observer, 25  Apr.

Liquide constet inter virum et uxorem amorem sibi locum vindicare non posse. It is clearly certain that between man and wife love can claim no place.

-Andreas Capellanus   fl. late12c
c.1185  De Amore, bk.1, ch.6, section 7.

It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

-Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson
  On  Africa. In the NewYork Times,16  Apr.

Fullones ululamque cano, non arma virumque. Of fullers and their wailing, I sing, not of arms and the man. 18

-Anonymous
BC c.1c  AD  Graffito found in Pompeii. In Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum I V, 9131. This is a parody of the famous opening line of  Virgil's  Aeneid 1.1:'Arma virumque cano'.

Thegloryof God isman, and thegloryof manishisdress.

-Anonymous
c.450  Babylonian Talmud. Quoted in Barton Stevenson (ed)  The Macmillan Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Famous Phrases (1948).

Feoh byth frofur fira gehwylcum Sceal theah manna gehwylc miclun hyt d×lan. Money is a comfort to each man, But everyone should nevertheless give it away freely.

-Anonymous
?c.900  The Rune Poem, l.1^2.

Ear byth egle eorla gehwylcun. The grave isghastly to every man.

-Anonymous
?c.900  The Rune Poem, l.90.