The Man Quotes

As a wise man once said, 'If not us, then who; if not now, then when?'

The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.

For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.

[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.

Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.

A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.

Who do you think has more freedom: the married man in America or the single man in Communist China?

Most women find a man with good manners sexy.

It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.

All true manliness grows around a core of divineness.

I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.

When security comes, every man for himself

Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

I make films about Black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a Black man, doesn't mean that he can't see them as a white man or she can't see them as a white woman.

The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.

Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits.

I am the man, I suffered, I was there.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind.

Not one man in a beer commercial has a beerbelly.

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.

Women take clothing much more seriously than men. I've never seen a man walk into a party and say "Oh, my God, I'm so embarrassed; get me out of here. There's another man wearing a black tuxedo.

You're going to think I'm being corny, but this is how I really feel: I hope my family and my friends will be able to say that I was an honest, kind and fairly decent man.

Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.

The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.

The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

Every man has a train of thought on which he rides when he is alone.

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely.

A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.

If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died...every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.

An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

The nation which can only be saved by one man and wants to be saved that way deserves a whipping!

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

The society of women is the element of good manners.