Man Quotes

There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.

A rich man's war and a poor man's fight.

A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.

We want to be, when we are young, A little man. I would like to be a big child, Stronger and fairer than a man, And more lucid than a child.

Let me burn out for God. After all, whatever God may appoint, prayer is the great thing. Oh, that I might be a man of prayer!

Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.

The mark of a man of God is God upon the man.

When I'm 70 I might be a man in a park just wandering around, speaking in tongues with kids throwing bread at me.

A good man fights for himself. A great man fights for everyone else

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.

Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.

The Superior Man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks the ritual cup.

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

I can think of no greater God-given responsibility we have than that of extending a helping hand to our fellow man.

True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.

Women love a self-confident bald man.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.

To Strauss the composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it back on again.

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

We salute the rank not the man

In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.

I'm a perfect example of the grumpy, old man. I'm really good at it.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.

A good man always knows his limitations.

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people

The love of God is not generic. God looks with love upon every man and woman, calling them by name.

Behind every great man there stands a great woman. Behind every great woman is a great behind.

Even if I thought I could get a submission I'm not laying underneath a grown man with my legs spread on worldwide TV. Some guys subscribe to that theory but I am a Republican and we don't do that.

I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.

Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.

Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!