The Man Quotes

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.

I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man.

A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.

The superior man is never in anyone's way.

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat.

Never trust a man when he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

When you stop trying to find the right man and start becoming the right woman, the right man will find his way to you.

I had to make a living. I was a married man. I had a wife. I had a home. I had children. I had to make a living. That's the common pursuit of every man.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

No man is good enough to be another's master.

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.

It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.

I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

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

There's only one man really responsible for those events - Yahya Khan. Both he and his advisers were so drunk with power and corruption they'd even forgotten the honor of the army.

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

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

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

There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God.

The man who pardons easily courts injury.

In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.