The Man Quotes

Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.

General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.

I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.

In tyranny lies only failure. Empower every man and you will gain strength.

Pray, do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.

Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.

How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.

Never underestimate a backwoods Cajun in a fight, old man.

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.

Working for the Man seemed really good to me.

The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest.

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.

Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.

The hungry nations of the world cry out to the peoples blessed with abundance. And the Church, cut to the quick by this cry, asks each and every man to hear his brother's plea and answer it lovingly.

I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.

Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.

Every man must be taken to be cognizant of the law, otherwise there is no saying to what extent the excuse of ignorance may not be Law carried. It would be urged in almost every case.

The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem.

Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

Be kind to an old man.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.

The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.

A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.

The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.

The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.

The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.

All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.

One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.