The Man Quotes

When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man (n. 368) (Divine Love and Wisdom, 1763)

Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.

In every good man a God doth dwell.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Picasso was a delightful, kindly, friendly, simple little man. When I met him he was extremely excited and overjoyed that his mother-in-law had just died, and he was looking forward to the funeral.

As the government is, such will be the man.

Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson." "Lake and Palmer?" "Ralph and Waldo.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.

Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contact

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit stronger than them all.

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to be proud that he can do it on his own strength.

It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.

There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!

I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.

Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

I just broke up with my girlfriend because I caught her lying. Under another man.

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.

The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the citizen for his civic functions in community life.

I think I'm a sober person. I think the press tries to make you into something a little bit different. In my case, a little bit of a wild man. I'm not. I'm actually not. I'm a very sober person.

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

The man I adored, and miss him terribly, was Johnny Carson.

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.

During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.

I'm so happy with the show. There's nothing in this life I'll ever regret - bad or good. I look back, learn from it, and be a better man the next day.

Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.

The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.