The Man Quotes
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.
If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.
Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.
I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.
Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience
Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.
There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.
Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.
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.
Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.
No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy.
No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the marketplace by an idea which belongs in the pulpit.
It happens that we DON’T SEE CHRIST AS GOD but simply the right man at the right time at the right place.
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.
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!
I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.
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.
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.
Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.
A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.
Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.
The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world?
Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.
One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch a century ago.
The men, who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly good, 'Twill cost you dear before he's understood.
What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.
There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more learned a man is, the less consideration he has for another man's belief.
People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.
Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.
A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.
