The Man Quotes
Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.
The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.
The wicked man, when he dies, is driven to his grave, but the Christian comes to his grave.
I think overseas viewers assume that Black Mirror is written by the Unabomber, essentially - a Luddite, technology-hating, angry old man waving his fist at the App Store.
The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body.
I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But as Mark Twain once said, 'You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word'.
Somehow it all got too out of hand, too complicated for a simple man. Don't want to have to pick and choose, hey, look at all these things I'll never use.
Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.
Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.
I like David Cameron. He has had a couple of rough statements, but that's okay, I think David Cameron's a good man.
What ever happened to freak shows? Back in the twenties when elephant man was born at least he had a job waiting for him.
A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.
No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.
I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.
I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.
Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.
Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.
Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.
Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how
The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.
in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.
It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.
One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read--what not to see or what not to listen to.
The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.
Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business.
Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend.
