The Man Quotes

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".

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

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.

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 sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.

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

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

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.

Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

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.

Every man's actions belong to him.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Every man should be content to mind his own business.

Every man for himself.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!

I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.

Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

Every man's disease is his personal property.

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man

The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.

The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.