The Man Quotes

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.

If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.

Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to do nothing.

I'd rather be a boy playing with a paper plane, than to be a grown man playing with a woman's heart.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.

Henry's breath hissed out through his teeth. That ba-bad man, he finished, with a quick glance at Cecily, who rolled her eyes.

Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are.

I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him.

You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically in love with you.

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

We cannot train women and forget about the men. We should train men to know the potential of women.

It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

I think society is entitled to recognize marriage as an institution that involves one man and one woman.

If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell - if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension.

With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff.

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

A company is known by the people it keeps.

I was asked once,'your a smart man,why arnt you rich?I replied 'your a rich man,why arnt you smart?

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.

I always knew I was going to be a family man.

The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.

I'm a family man. I personally started 3 or 4 families last year.

One man, one horse, one holocaust on demand.

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

Men argue. Nature acts.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.