Quotes about man page 45
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
Kathleen Norris (1880–1966) American writer
Ally Carter (1974) American writer
Source: Uncommon Criminals
Sherry Argov (1977) American writer
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes
Jace to Clary, pg. 45
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
“A man kept his character even when he was insane.”
Graham Greene book The Ministry of Fear
Source: The Ministry of Fear
Dick Gregory (1932–2017) American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, and entrepreneur
“A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
An earlier unattributed version of this quip appeared in What Man Can Make of Man (1942) by William Ernest Hocking: "He lends himself to the gibe that he is 'so very liberal, that he cannot bring himself to take his own side in a quarrel.'" http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/a_liberal_is_a_man_too_broad_minded_to_take_his_own_side_in_a_quarrel/ <br class="br">Source: As quoted by Guy Davenport (The Geography of the Imagination) at page x in A Liberal Education http://books.google.de/books?id=Dly0RgUc0YcC&pg=PR10&dq=A+liberal+is+a+man+too+broadminded+to+take+his+own+side+in+a+quarrel.&hl=de&sa=X&ei=Xt_OUZSGJcjLswaApYDQBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=A%20liberal%20is%20a%20man%20too%20broadminded%20to%20take%20his%20own%20side%20in%20a%20quarrel.&f=false by Abbott Gleason (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Tide Pool Press, 2010). <br class="br">Source: As quoted by Harvey Shapiro “Story of the Poem”, 15 January 1961, New York (NY) Times, Section SM page 6 https://www.nytimes.com/1961/01/15/archives/story-of-the-poem-the-story-of-the-poem.html?searchResultPosition=1
Lois McMaster Bujold book The warrior's Apprentice
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Variant translation: If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.
VI, 21
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VI
“Man, life was complicated. But the truth was simple. He was her home. He was where she belonged.”
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Reborn
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
1820s, Letter to A. Coray (1823)
Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson
Context: The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government. Modern times have the signal advantage, too, of having discovered the only device by which these rights can be secured, to wit: government by the people, acting not in person, but by representatives chosen by themselves, that is to say; by every man of ripe years and sane mind, who either contributes by his purse or person to the support of his country.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1950s, Three Ways of Meeting Oppression (1958)
Context: To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system; thereby the oppressed become as evil as the oppressor. Non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper. To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right. It is a way of allowing his conscience to fall asleep. At this moment the oppressed fails to be his brother's keeper. So acquiescence-while often the easier way-is not the moral way. It is the way of the coward.
“I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: Always on My Mind
“I am a man; no other man do I deem a stranger.”
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
Tragic Sense of Life
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
“The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.”
Norman Mailer book The Naked and the Dead
Gen. Edward Cummings, in Pt. 1, Ch. 6
Source: The Naked and the Dead (1948)
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
Speech at Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C. (22 October 1883).
1880s, Speech at the Civil Rights Mass Meeting (1883)
Variant: No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
Jennifer Ashley (1974) American author
Source: Pride Mates
“The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.”
Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist
Source: UnWholly
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
"An Introduction", The Fireside Book of Dog Stories (Simon and Schuster, 1943); reprinted in Thurber's Dogs (1955)
From other writings
“All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.”
John Irving book The World According to Garp
Source: The World According to Garp
Robert A. Heinlein book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966)
Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Sherry Argov (1977) American writer
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
Stephen King book The Gunslinger
Source: The Gunslinger
“Confucius say, man with hand in pocket feel cocky all day”
Sylvia Day book Bared to You
Source: Bared to You
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Variant: Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)
Source: On Peace
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Secrets of a Summer Night
“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
Source: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
“It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.”
Idries Shah book The Sufis
Source: The Sufis
“In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.”
Henry Adams book The Education of Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Source: The Education of Henry Adams
“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
As quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs, p. 264
2000s and attributed from posthumous publications
“A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.”
Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.”
Laurence Sterne book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Book II, Ch. 17.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
“A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.”
Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist
