The Man Quotes

To live, is to suffer; and the honest man is always fighting to be master of his own mind.

I caught my wife in bed with another man and I was crushed. So I said, "Get off of me, you two!"

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

I found the road to wealth when I decided that a part of all I earned was mine to keep.

As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.

The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.

The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.

The Air Force pinned a medal on me for killing a man and discharged me for making love to one.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

I haven’t been right all year. I guess, you know, when you don’t feel good, and you still get hits, that’s when you know you are a bad man.

And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love".

There's a whole form of literature in India which talks about the quest for the perfect man by a woman, where every woman looks for a perfect man but only ends up with half that.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.

I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person) on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he is worthy to have.

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

I love doing shows. I love rocking shows. I love playing instruments. I love singing. If I can find a way to do that and feed my family, then I'm a happy man.

I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like.

Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

Every man should have the right to choose their destiny.

The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

A tough fight against evil is the duty of good man.

Every man has an atmosphere which is affecting every other.

One man's mistake is another man's opportunity.

If a man is to be a man, a free spirit unto himself, he must arm himself not only with weapons but with ideals and concepts he is willing to die for.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.