The Man Quotes

I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man.

You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. . . It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.

Success is uncommon, not to be found by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people.

I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but... I promise you, the right man won't care.

Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, "what fear has a rich man of calamity?" Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish.

Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

The refuge from pessimism is the good men and women at any time existing in the world, -they keep faith and happiness alive.

The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, 'I love to make a grown man piss himself.'

I want to be a good creature for reasons beyond sharing a life with a good man.

When I do stand-up, I'm basically doing a one-man show.

I spent five years in prison, a free man for the first time in my whole life.

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

Judge [Samuel] Alito has a reputation for being an exceptional and honest judge devoted to the rule of law, as well as being a man of integrity.

Some must delve when the dawn is nigh; Some must toil when the noonday beams; But when might comes, and the soft winds sigh, Every man is a King of Dreams.

While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.

A superior man is one who is free from fear and anxieties

The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.

The superior man limits his achievements.

A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails.

The good man does not grieve that other people do not recognize his merits. His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs.

Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.

It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.

The allure of immodesty is not in what is seen but what is not seen. Modesty issues a challenge for one man to romantically earn your virtue.

Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.

Your every act can open hearts and minds.

Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion?

Wild men, screaming through the keyholes.

Old ideas from an old man about an old vision of Europe.

Suddenly Saracen Rue looked old and tired, and Skulduggery Pleasant came into focus as what he really was – a genius, a killer, a tortured soul, and the only true dead man among them.

I've... been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain't. I never tell if I have.

An angry man can only get so far until he reconciles the way he thinks.

Now, settle down, settle down. Hell, I'm an old man, it's early in the morning and I'm gathering my thoughts here.

Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if there is going to be anything like that in a relationship.

The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle.

The Spirit of God first imparts love; He next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in a good many of our churches at the present time.

suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.

Good manners do more for a man that good looks.

There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one.

I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.

That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.

In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.

The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.

Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.