The Man Quotes

There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.

The wise man once said invest young

Many things are good, many are important, but only a few are essential.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don't say nothin' 'bout the money. 'Hi, how ya doin'? How's ya mama doing?' Man, how's my money doin'?

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.

I don't need an overpowering, powerful, rich man to feel secure. I'd much rather have a man who is there for me, who really loves me, who is growing, who is real.

Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be.

Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.

For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death.

White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the world; it is called the history of the world.

A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints and surmises.

Only the man who lives in the laws of GOD is free

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.

A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

Hide nothing from your confessor... a sick man can be cured only by revealing his wounds.

Failures not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

An average man is too concerned with liking people or with being liked himself. A warrior likes, that's all. He likes whatever or whomever he wants, for the hell of it.

Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's true wealth.

I've never met another man I'd rather be.

Never trust a man in a jumpsuit

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

And biblically, again, I'm going to go right back to my fundamental Christian beliefs marriage is between one man and one woman.

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime.

The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.

One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.

I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.