The Man Quotes

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

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 of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

Let no such man be trusted.

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

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

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

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.

If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.

This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.

If I become the man you want, I wouldn't be the man I am.

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature.

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

Nature made the fields and man the cities.

I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.

I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.

Probably no invention came more easily to man than Heaven.

I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?