The Man Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself

I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man.

Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.

I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.

Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.

A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror.

The man who respects a woman does not know what else to do with her.

Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.

We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own eyes.

I love hard work. One Man, Two Guvnors was so physically tiring I ached all the time, but I took a massive amount of pride in the fact that I only ever missed two shows.

All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.

When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.

The right man can make a good job out of any job.

The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.

With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.

Mankind — the race would perish did they cease to aid each other.

A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.

Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.

I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.

There's place and means for every man alive.

I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.

If we can hump dead animals and antelopes, there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope.

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]

Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.