The Man Quotes

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

Give me a black man, a white woman, a giraffe, a zebra anything but another white man! That last one f***ed up my roof!

When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That's the image television pumps.

That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.

Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.

As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another

If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

Every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.

It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.

The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.

An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

A holy man is a mighty weapon in the hands of God.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

Any serious man or woman in search of spiritual ideas will find a surprising challenge and an authentic source of inspiration and intellectual nourishment in the writings of Paul Brunton.

Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.

I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form.

If a physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician becomes the most dangerous man in the state.

A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled.

You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.

For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible.

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.

Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.

And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.

A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.

Whatever your Bible translation is, it stands on the shoulders of one man - William Tyndale.

Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones.

After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.

If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.

He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

Everyone pretty much acknowledges that he's the man, and I still feel that underrates him.

No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.

Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.

Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.

[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth