Quotes about man page 39
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.”
Aldous Huxley book Brave New World
Source: Brave New World
“Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist
“Man’s main task is to give birth to himself.”
Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst
“Education is the art of making man ethical”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) German philosopher
“I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not”
Robert A. Heinlein book The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
Source: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Rises
Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine
Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.”
Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer
Source: The Lonesome Gods (1983), Ch. 57
Context: “You are complex.”
“No. Within this giant house of flesh lives a quiet man who would prefer working at a trade. Or perhaps he is a poet whose dreams are too large for his words. “My home is among the mountains. Men destroy what they do not understand, as they destroyed the son of God when he chose to walk among them. I do not wish to be understood. I wish to be left alone. Your Johannes has done this. He is a kind man, a thoughtful man.”
“Are you never lonely?”
“When would I not be lonely? When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is. I am a man apart but have become adjusted to it. I have the mountains, and I have my books. I also have the friendship of Johannes.”
“A man can smile and smile and be a villain.”
Aldous Huxley book Brave New World
Source: Brave New World
“Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.”
Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian
Source: Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC
“Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) German philosopher
“True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.”
Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bites
“Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
“A blind man can see how much I love you”
Amy Bloom (1953) Fiction writer, screenwriter, social worker, psychotherapist
“The desert surrounds your every step and you walk forever a thirsty man.”
Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden
Source: Creatures of Forever
“A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
“So far I’m not seeing a lot of difference between me and a carnival con-man.”
Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily
Source: The Golden Lily
“I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.”
George Meredith book The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
Source: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 1.
Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“You'd be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along.”
Danielle Steel book The Wedding
Source: The Wedding
“A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.”
Jacqueline Susann book Valley of the Dolls
Source: Valley of the Dolls
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.”
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate
Sam Keen (1931) author, professor, and philosopher
Source: Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man
“Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
Barbara Bush (1925–2018) former First Lady of the United States
Variant: Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.
Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner
Variant: When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
Context: There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.... When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.
“He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any man could have.”
Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), Ch. 30
“Apparently, word of the chicken man incident hadn’t spread quite yet.”
Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid
Source: The Red Pyramid
“Honor is the presence of God in man.”
Pat Conroy The Lords of Discipline
Source: The Lords of Discipline
“Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.”
David Hume book An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Section 1 : Of The Different Species of Philosophy
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)
Context: Nature has pointed out a mixed kind of life as most suitable to the human race, and secretly admonished them to allow none of these biases to draw too much, so as to incapacitate them for other occupations and entertainments. Indulge your passion for science, says she, but let your science be human, and such as may have a direct reference to action and society. Abstruse thought and profound researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce, by the endless uncertainty in which they involve you, and by the cold reception which your pretended discoveries shall meet with, when communicated. Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
“The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.”
Robert Benchley (1889–1945) American comedian
Source: "Quick Quotations" in My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew (1936)
Context: The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense if quoted as it stands.
“I want to be an honest man and a good writer.”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author
“When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.”
Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist
Variant: The moment people come to know love, they run the risk of carrying hate.
Toni Morrison book Beloved
Variant: She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Source: Beloved
“One man's mistake is another man's opportunity.”
Steven Brust (1955) American fantasy and science fiction author
“If you had to shoot a man, society had already failed.”
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
Source: The Bands of Mourning
J. Michael Straczynski (1954) American writer and television producer
Source: Thor, by J. Michael Straczynski, Volume 1
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist
Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
