I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Henry David Thoreau

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Lao Tzu

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
Lao Tzu

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
Mae West

His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
Mae West

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.
Mae West

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
Mae West

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
Anais Nin

If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
Sun Tzu

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan Poe

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan Poe

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
Ernest Hemingway

There's just me and my wife and a dog and we feed him Healthy Choice also.
Mike Ditka

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Jim Rohn