The Man Quotes
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?
Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.
If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.
What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.
The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.
I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.
When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.
Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year.
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.
You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.