Man Quotes

Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?

Behind every great man in prison is another great man in prison.

There come a time, when good man must wear mask.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

The measure of a man is not necessarily his title or his position, but rather how he treats others.

Every man is the author of his own life.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.

A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay.

Security and contentment can come only through interdependence of every man upon every other man.

Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends … if you [have] five, you’re a rich man….

Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.

No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Wealth is power. With wealth many things are possible.

Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.

I used to think that having many material things would increase one's stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don't make the man at all.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

… The most worthy calling in life is that in which man can serve best his fellow man. … The noblest aim in life is to strive to live to make other lives better and happier.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

No one man is superior to the game.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

We evolved the ability to communicate disappointment to teach those around us good manners

Man is only truly free only among equally free men.

As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads.”

The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God's free man.

I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I shall leave it

I try to be a man of mystery. I try to keep the various projects I'm up to as close to the vest as possible until it's time to reveal them.

For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.

...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

You won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.

It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.

Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.