The Man Quotes

Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.

One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.

Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.

No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.

A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.

The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.

I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.

A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.

Every man for himself.

Every man should be content to mind his own business.

Audience response to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. back in the '60s - well, I was frankly surprised by the show's success and the attendant publicity for David and myself.

It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.

Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.

The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.

Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.

The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.

Every man's actions belong to him.

With my old man I got no respect. When he took me hunting he gave me a three minute head start. Then on the way home he tied me to the fender and put the deer in the car.

Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.

One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.

I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.

What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown.

I don't think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I'm very lucky man.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for "the brotherhood of man".

The noble man is only God's image.

In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk.

Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.

Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.