The Man Quotes

For never, never, wicked man was wise.

Every man's life is a plan of God.

I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man.

If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.

To be a man, a boy must see a man

Don't look back, over your shoulder! Keep your eye on freedom shore! Because you know the brave man with you, also pays for the wages of war.

No happy man bases his decisions on fear.

The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.

Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar.

It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

It is a happy woman when the spirit time is come, that finds herself in the presence of a good man.

Dyan Favre, Brett's nephew, is also a gem. Not just a favorite person from the book - a favorite person, period. I actually wound up writing this about him. Simply a good, righteous man.

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.

That gut-wrenching feeling of defeat I can still feel today. Losing and God are the two things that I fear. I fear no man

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.

By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

I do know that the world knows or thinks that I have money and lots of it. They perceive me as an old weak man and an easy target.

It is unethical for any man to tax another man's home to fund his social agenda. Friends don't do that, your enemies will.

Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.

I just... want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.

I would sit in at a jazz brunch [at sweet Basil] with Eddie Chamblee, who was a great tenor player. Really a kind man. The whole band was great.

Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.

Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself.

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.

To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]

Family is the most important thing in the world. If everything ended tomorrow and my family was still there, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.

You can just fight one man at a time.

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

There is a dog in every man.

I'm probably taller than 90% of the men I meet.

An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.

Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.

I want to deal with the truth and a proper education that will not allow us to be educated and then come out and beg another man for a job when you should be creating a job for yourself.

In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Here is one spot where each may experience the "romance of possibility".

Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.

A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence" that it bestows upon the common man.

Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints

Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.