Be A Man Quotes

Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve us free and prosperous as long as they are sacredly observed.

Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.

never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased

Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.

Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.

The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.

The people of America are a people of property; almost every man is a freeholder.

I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.

I think she [Michelle Obama] is reluctant to date someone she's above at work. It's 1989, she's at a law firm, surrounded by mostly white men, and she has to prove herself every day.

Will Ferrell is a dangerous man. If he thinks you're in his way in show business, he will crack your head open. He's the Jeff Gillooly of comedy.

It's every man for himself, every woman, every child. A new breed ferocious and wild.

I want to go to my grave a free man. Surviving against giants-that's victory.

I'm the only man in London that 'Don't talk to strange men' doesn't apply to.

My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.

I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.

Lot's and lot's I am a proud man having so many fans of my work: (Paintings and films)

If you're a writer you know that the stories don't come to you, you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.

It was my father who could do no wrong. So I didn't think of it as, oh, look, my father's a violent man.

I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.

Failure either ruins you, or turns you into the man you can become.

Between writing, traveling, speaking, preaching, and doing my best to be a good husband to my wife and my three kids, that's about as much as one man or at least this man can do.

How can I be a man if there is no role model?

The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he will learn readily and make a good soldier.

Every man is obsessed by the memories of his own youth.

It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man.

I've been a free man.

I have seen without perceiving I have been another man Let me pierce the realm of glamour So I know just what I am.

The depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

I wonder if this is how is is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men.

He who does not move with the times is a dead man

All other things being equal, a bald man cannot be elected President of the United States.

This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.

I think I have signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?

To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank her.

Every man comes into the world with a predisposition to grow along certain lines, and growth is easier for him along those lines than in any other way.

There is no possibility in any man that is not in every man

I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.

What is one man among so many men? What are so many men in such a world? Can one man think one thing and think it long? Can one man be one thing and be it long?

Reaching into one's own pocket to assist his fellow man is noble and worthy of praise. Reaching into another person's pocket to assist one's fellow man is despicable and worthy of condemnation.

Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man hardly qualifies as charity.

When people are still getting pleasure from something that you did 30 years ago, it makes you feel good. I always say it makes an old man happy.

I used to be an angry man myself. I’m a recovering assaholic so I could recognize that in Steve. (quoting Jean-Louis Gassée)

It is remarkable how very individual technique becomes in watercolour. Every man of personality finally arrives at a method peculiarly his own, as unique as his own fingerprint.

The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. They work on the ideas; perhaps that is why a genius usually hates his disciples.

There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.

True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.