“And the second as an old man might say it about the weather; not without sincerity but certainly without fervour.”
“Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second without hope.”
“I've heard two ways of looking at it. One says the silent man is the wise man & the other that a man without words is a man without thought. Naturally I favor the second!"~ East of Eden”
“A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.”
“One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.”
“A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.”