Quotes about man

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“I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.”

“There was a man and he had eight sons. Apart from that, he was nothing more than a comma on the page of History. It's sad, but that's all you can say about some people.”

“There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.”

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being”

“The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.”

“A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.”

“You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry”

“A wise man once said, "never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment."”

“For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.”

“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.”

“I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.”

“A man's allowed to make lots of small mistakes, and there's nothing wrong with that. But if the mistakes are big ones and they weigh him down, his only solution is to stop taking himself seriously. It's the only way to avoid suffering - suffering, prolonged, can be fatal.”

“There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.”

“A man is only as good as what he loves.”

“A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.”

“The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.”

“I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living and that economy is a prime requisite of a sound financial structure, whether in government, business or personal affairs.

I believe that truth and justice are fundamental to an enduring social order.

I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man's word should be as good as his bond, that character—not wealth or power or position—is of supreme worth.

I believe that the rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind and that only in the purifying fire of sacrifice is the dross of selfishness consumed and the greatness of the human soul set free.

I believe in an all-wise and all-loving God, named by whatever name, and that the individual's highest fulfillment, greatest happiness and widest usefulness are to be found in living in harmony with His will.

I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world; that it alone can overcome hate; that right can and will triumph over might.”

“The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.”

“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”

“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

“To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.”

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

“Without madness what is man
more than the healthy beast,
corpse adjourned that procreates?”

“The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.”

“It is a natural illness of man to think that he possesses the truth directly…”

“I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.”

“I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.”

“Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.”

“I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it.”

“So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball”

“I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
"Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.”

“It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.”

“So I want to thank the Pentagon, the Soviet Union and the military-industrial complex from the bottom of my heart. Without them, I could never have become the man I am today.”

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”

“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”

“Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.”

“Keep things at arm's length… If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.”

“Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.”

“It is easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is one who will smile,
When everything goes dead wrong.”

“It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.”

“The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.”

“A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.”

“The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.”

“The man or woman who doesn't forgive has forgotten the price that Christ paid for them on the Cross.”

“If you ever meet the man who could take advantage of Isabelle, you’ll have to let me know. I’d like to shake his hand. Or run away from him very fast, I’m not sure which.”

“Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads.”

“You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away — a man is not a piece of fruit.”

“However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.”

“But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.”

“I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.”

“The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.”

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.”

“From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”

“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”

“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano, A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.”

“I know about people who talk about suffering for the common good. It's never bloody them! When you hear a man shouting "Forward, brave comrades!" you'll see he's the one behind the bloody big rock and the wearing the only really arrow-proof helmet!”

“I'm with a man who's evolved enough to look at my body and see it as more beautiful because of the journey it has taken.”

“Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.”

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.”

“Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.”

“Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.”

“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?”

“In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.”

“Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.”

“Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.”

“I'm more of a man then you'll ever be, I'm more of a woman then you'll ever get.”

“I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.”

“How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?”

“What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets.”

“The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.”

“The doubters said,
"Man can not fly,"
The doers said,
"Maybe, but we'll try,"
And finally soared
In the morning glow
While non-believers
Watched from below.”

“Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.”

“It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.”

“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”

“For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.”

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”

“Give a man a mask and he’ll tell you the truth.”

“Jesus tells us to keep our eyes open so we are not fooled by the signs indicating that the End Times are near. As we get closer to the End Times, many people are going to claim to be the Messiah and claim to have the answers for a troubled world. Additionally, the book of Revelation tells us to expect a period of ceaseless, unending, terrible war. It appears that we are already preparing for this time as fifty percent of all research scientists today are involved in arms development and there is at least one military weapon and four thousand pounds of explosives for every man, woman, and child on earth. Finally, there will be more and more disease and devastation. Today, as you read this, millions of people in the world are being afflicted by insufficient food, the spread of new diseases, and the devastating effects of natural disasters. As we get closer to the End Times, there will be more and more famine. There will also be an increase in earthquakes and natural disasters. Christ also spoke of pestilence: the spread of new diseases. Our world will experience a spate of tragic new diseases that we will be unable to control.”

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”

“Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a
red flag to a bu… was like putting something very annoying in front of
someone who was annoyed by it.”

“The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.”

“I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.”

“More than two millennia later…. Hawthorne puts forward a similar vision: A woman must bring the 'new truth…. in order to establish the whole relation between man and woman on a surer ground of mutual happiness' (The Scarlet Letter p.241)…. With the brilliant economy of the letter A, he demonstrates why this vision is doomed to failure. The very passion that renders a woman able to see through the "iron framework" of Puritanism also disables her by causing her to be seen in the eyes of the Puritans as an impure woman, a woman who has been adulterated. This double vision… at once frees and imprisons women.”

“The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.”

“… the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.”

“Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)”

“Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.”

“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”

“A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.”

“I set off, off to kill the man I love.”

“The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.”

“After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.”

“In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man”

“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it”

“The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.”

“My father always said I would do something big one day. he’d tell me, after he’d had a few beers. And he was right, my old man.

I was in prison before my eighteenth birthday.”

“We are not men, to have need of another, an eternal life; we are women, and for us one moment with man we love is everlasting Paradise, one moment far from the man we love is everlasting hell. It is here on earth that we women love out eternity”

“That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.”