The Man Quotes

The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.

It takes a strong man to accept somebody else's children and step up to the plate another man left on the table.

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

A true man hates no one.

Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong... It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideals.

Without the lord to shield you and guide you, you gonna fade away. Jah is your shield and your guide. The wicked man gotta turn aside. No need to fear no wicked guide. Rastafari protect your life!

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Anytime you see me with my arms around an old man, I'm holding him for the police.

As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.

Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.

The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness.

Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition.

The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

Revenge is like a ghost... It takes over every man it touches... Its thirst cannot be quenched... Until the last man standing has fallen.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

The strength of the nation lies in the well-being of the common man.

The human heart by nature seeks after God. There is a spiritual vacuum in every man until it is filled by Christ.

The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.

Let every man of whatsoever craft or occupation he be of... serve his brethren.

What is one man's life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the sun for a moment before melting into the flow of time.

It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

It is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one.

I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.

There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is a superior or a subject, an old man or a young one, a scholar or a dunce.

A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.

The Church in the colonies is the white people's Church, the foreigner's Church. She does not call the native to God's ways but to the ways of the white man, of the master, of the oppressor.

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.

In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.

A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.