A. P. Herbert - Man Quotes

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The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity
Are constructed with considerable care.

A. P. Herbert

A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.

A. P. Herbert

An Act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.

A. P. Herbert

There's alcohol in plant and tree.
It must be Nature's plan
That there should be in fair degree
Some alcohol in Man.

A. P. Herbert

My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me. Well, let him wave-the sky is blue; Go on, old ball, we are but two-We may be down in three, Or nine-or ten-or twenty-five-It matters not; to be alive, Is good enough for me.

A. P. Herbert

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure—the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

A. P. Herbert