The Man Quotes
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.
The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.
Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so would the average lawyer.
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
never trust a man who wears a pinkie ring. . . the only jewelry a guy should wear is a wedding band or a super bowl ring
There is a saying in China that the nature of man is found there, in the center, where emotions are not yet manifest. In this center is the potentiality of everything to come.
When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.
The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform... therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.
...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.
My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need to know about hard work. My dad is the most decent man you could come across.
One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.
No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.
I dream of a true husband—a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but of a gentle man, one who neither speaks too loud nor ignores evil.
What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave up the piano for a month. I figured it was hopeless to practice.
