The Man Quotes

Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

He is the man who has been brought on to replace Pavel Nedved. The irreplaceable Pavel Nedved.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent.

Allah gave the Qur'an to a very special man, who passed it on to us, for the rest of all our days.

The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.

The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.

A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

You're the kind of man my mother warned me about.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.

I'm the man that made wrestling famous.

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.