Quotes about man

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“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.”

“Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.”

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

“The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition”

“When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal.”

“He is the half part of a blessed man,
Left to be finished by such as she;
And she a fair divided excellence,
Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.”

“They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged.”

“I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.”

“My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.”

“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”

“Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.”

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”

“Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.”

“I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.”

“Do you smoke?

Well, yes, I must admit I smoke.

I'm glad to hear of it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.”

“Nobody loves the light like the blind man.”

“He who kneels before God, can stand before any man.”

“You burn the paper, but not the words. You silence the words, but not the thoughts. You kill the thoughts only if you kill the man. And you will find that his thoughts rise again in the minds of others - twice as strong as before.”

“But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.”

“No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled.
"Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?"
"What?"
"Oh, you'd like something simpler?”

“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom:
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved”

“Everything comes if a man will only wait.”

“You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak”

“If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.”

“I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”

“Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive.”

“Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.”

“That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.”

“It takes a great man to be a good listener.”

“God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.”

“It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.”

“God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.”

“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”

“I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.”

“Man cannot stand a meaningless life.”

“Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.”

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

“Who shot him? I asked.
The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.”

“My God died young. Theolatry i found
Degrading, and its premises, unsound.
No free man needs God; but was I free?”

“There is the heat of Love,
the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover's whisper,
irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”

“The significant relationships of early adulthood are thus construed as the means to an end of individual achievement, and these "transitional figures" must be cast off or reconstructed following the realization of success. If in the process, however, they become, like Dido, an impediment to the fulfillment of the Dream, then the relationship must be renounced, "to allow the developmental process" to continue. This process is defined by Levinson explicitly as one of individuation: "throughout the life cycle, but especially in the key transition periods… the developmental process of individuation is going on." The process refers "to the changes in a person's relationships to himself and to the external world," the relationships that constitute his "Life Structure" (p. 195).

If in the course of "Becoming One's Own Man," this structure is discovered to be flawed and threatens the great expectations of the Dream, then in order to avert "serious Failure or Decline," the man must "break out" to salvage his Dream. This act of breaking out is consummated by a "marker event" of separation, such as "leaving his wife, quitting his job, or moving to another region" (p. 206). Thus the road to mid-life salvation runs through either achievement or separation.”

“Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.”

“By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.”

“I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited.”

“As far as I'm concerned the last good man went when Elvis died.”

“In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.”

“Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured”

“In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.”

“One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.”

“All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being… he can't be any worse.”

“If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.”

“Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.”

“Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality

Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly?
Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.”

“A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.”

“All male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey, and ride off after the other in pursuit of illusive glory and questionable adventure.”

“The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.”

“I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.”

“Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman… Which is probably the same thing!”

“Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.”

“The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.”

“This man belongs to me, I want him!”

“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.”

“The finest actor is he who play the comedy of life perfectly, as i aspire to do. To walk well, talk well, weep well, laugh well and die well, it is all pure acting, because in every man there is the dumb dreadful immortal spirit who is real- who cannot act, who-is and who steadily maintains an infinite though speechless protest against the body's lies”

“Fang laughed as he shoved Vane away 'Man, quit hugging on me. You are a perv." Vane punched him in the arm. "You're such an a**hole,"
Trace gasped. "Daddy said a bad word!"
Fang said "You tell him pup. Keep your daddy straight.”

“It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.”

“I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.”

“It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.”

“A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.”

“The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion”

“I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”

“My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.”

“Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.”

“Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.”

“Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.”

“I love you breathlessly, my amazing man.”

“Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”

“To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, & leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.”

“Stand before your god, bow before your king, kneel before your man.”

“Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.”

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”

“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man’s will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.”

“She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life — one scratched on the wall.”

“Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn’t paying attention”

“When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.”

“You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.”

“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”

“I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.”

“Man is something that shall be overcome. Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.”

“LADY BRACKNELL

Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?”

“Let every man be master of his time.”

“Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.”

“Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation…”

“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”

“The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.”

“A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.”

“Thoughts are free and subject to no rule. On them rests the freedom of man, and they tower above the light of nature… create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy from which new arts flow.”

“A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.”

“We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.”