"In his private heart no man much respects himself."
- Mark Twain
"When I was young I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part."
- Artur Rubinstein
"A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror."
- Sigmund Freud
"We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us."
- Charles Baudelaire
"At twenty a man is a peacock at thirty a lion at forty a camel at fifty a serpent at sixty a dog at seventy an ape at eighty nothing at all."
- Baltasar Gracian
"Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent."
- Horatio Smith
"There are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom lovers of honour lovers of gain."
- Plato