The Man Quotes

If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are.

No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Every man loves what he is good at.

The sea hath fish for every man.

Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the "true man," and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man.

To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.

A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man.

The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.

A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.

I also like men who like dogs. I couldn't date a man who doesn't like my dog.

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.

To be a man you've gotta beat the man.

I'm married but the special man is my dog, Henry.

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.

I think a man needs to be a man. To hold a woman the way she wants to be held. Just do whatever your woman wants, and you'll be fine.

As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?

In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.

The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.

To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business.

One man in a meeting, filled with unbelief, can make a place for the devil to have a seat.

If we can reform the man and make him a better man and a God-fearing man, then we have a chance, we believe, to build a better world.

The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller.

As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be

Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.

Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.

To prosper soundly in business, you must satisfy not only your customers, but you must lay yourself out to satisfy also the men who make your product and the men who sell it.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

It’s easier to look sexy when you’re thinking of one man in particular.

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out.

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.