What Is Man Quotes

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

This one man dynasty has only just begun.

I didn't want to move or act like a rich man. I wanted to dance in a pair of jeans. I wanted to dance like the man in the streets.

Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.

I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.

The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.

The worse the man, the better the soldier.

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

A Every man has a king and a fool in him and the one you talk to reacts.

Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.

We must relearn how to cry. A strong man cries; it is the weak man who holds back his tears.

Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.

When you see stuff that's wrong... it's just wrong, man. You gotta point that out.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

I think any man over 250 pounds rollerblading is instant hilarity. There's nothing funnier than a giant, grown man rollerblading.

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

England expects that every man will do his duty.

That old man...had my division massacred at Gettysburg!

Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.

If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.

I never trust a man that doesn't drink.