What Is Man Quotes

Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.

The only failure one man should fear, is the failure to do his best.

A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias. The small man is biased and can see a question only from one side.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.

Every man knows the smell of his own fart.

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.

Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.

I always have the idea in mind that when Botticelli was an old man nobody cared about him because he was out of fashion. Imagine, Botticelli was out of fashion!

A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.

All are brothers and sisters. All are one, be alike to every­one. That is Unity... the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.

Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.

It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

I am just a plain, common man.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.

The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

Only weak men want women to be weak.

Describe your perfect man who looks like me.

A friend of mine always says, ‘Women love me for the man I’m not.’

A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.

I don't trust any man who hasn't kissed another man.

A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one.

We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man.

Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

I have always deeply desired to be an honest man who said it when I struggled, stumbled and worried. I longed to be a man with real friends - friends who knew me at my worst and loved me.

One man's larceny is another's just distribution of goods.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand?

We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man.

There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.