The Man Quotes

Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements."

The man who lives for himself is a failure; the man who lives for others has achieved true success.

I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.

On Christmas day you can't get sore, your fellow man you must adore. There's time to cheat him all the more the other three hundred and sixty-four

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

Life is tough, man. No one is spared from obstacles and trials, but there is such a beautiful plan for each of us. Just gotta let it happen.

There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but a passing fable.

God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.

I don't like dating or just living with a woman. I like to create a relationship, a marriage. And almost all of my marriages have involved children, so I'm really a family man as well.

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.

The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.

Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.

The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.

Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.

I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.

I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.

Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.

Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.

A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

"A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit."

My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.

When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.

No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.

There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.

The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others.

Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.

Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]

Good manners require space and time.

The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.

I know how important good mental health care can be because I personally benefited from it.

I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it.

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

But Jesus has been depicted as a serious man. And Christians say he never laughed. Then what is the function of an Enlightened man? If Jesus cannot laugh, then who is going to laugh in this world?

Observation is an old man's memory.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.