The Man Quotes

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

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.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

We must kill the savage to save the man.

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

Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

A man's kiss is his signature.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Man always dies before he is fully born.

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

Can'ttrustpeople. Won'tdoanygood. They'llkillyoueverytime. They'llkilleachother. They'llkilleveryone.

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

What can you say about a man, who on Mother's Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him the happiest man on Earth?

No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.

I want to be a man's man - not a kid actor or a glitzy pop star but a no-bullshit leading man.

My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death.

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good.

One man's constant is another man's variable.

No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.

It’s your one last chance,” said Harry, “it’s all you’ve got left. . . .I’ve seen what you’ll be otherwise. . . . Be a man . . . try . . . Try for some remorse. . . .

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.

I am a simple man and I want simple answers.

In the life of one man, never The same time returns.

A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.

My great crime wasn't refusing to represent an innocent man; my great crime was imagining that there was some path to racial justice that did not include those we view as 'guilty'.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.