The Man Quotes

The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.

Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.

It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or

Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words. A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions!

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

A noble man is led far by woman's gentle words. [Ger., Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort Der Frauen weit gefuhrt.]

Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.

When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut.

The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

The style is the man himself.

The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

A Christian Anarchist does not depend on bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused and dying world.

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed.

CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.

...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

This will be the fourth time I've seen this film. I'm very proud of it and I think it's a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I've talked to has admitted to crying.

When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.

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.

Every man's disease is his personal property.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!

A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring.

The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can.

The confession of one man humbles all.

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.

Why not be a man and fight like a man.

I remember filling my car up in London when an 85-year-old man said to me, 'You've done our age group proud.' That made me laugh. I'm not quite there yet!

He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man.

In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.

Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman.

To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.