The Man Quotes

Man is the measure of all things.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

The average man can't prove most of the things that he chooses to speak of, and still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of

It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

One man's Poison Ivy is another Fellow's Spinach.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.

Any one man, woman, or child can be what they want to be; but be the right thing.

A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.

The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

I want every fan of Rand to hear [Polaha] say the classic Galt phrase: “I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.

Truths are more likely to be discovered by one man than by a nation

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

The free man is the man with no fears.

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.