Quotes about man

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“We could get kinky and see how bats and rats make love, he suggested in a whisper, warm breath against her neck.
You are a sick man, Jacques. Very, very sick.”

“No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.”

“The free man never thinks of escape.”

“When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.”

“To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.”

“Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.”

“You do not interrupt a man when he is explaining his master plan after having been soundly defeated. Don't you watch any James Bond Movies?”

“A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.”

“The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease.”

“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”

“Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.”

“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”

“As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.”

“Let me tell you something. A man ain’t a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can’t chop down because they’re inside.”

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”

“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?”

“Every unmarried man is looking for a wife. They just don't always know it.”

“Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.”

“Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.”

“The only thing about a man that is a man… is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.”

“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”

“Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.”

“There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.”

“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.”

“These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-
Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.”

“One day you may kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence.”
“Right, and one day my prince might come.”
“I doubt he’ll be a prince, Ms. Lane. Men rarely are.”

“A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.”

“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.”

“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error”

“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”

“And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.”

“If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creatures could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet?”

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.”

“The man who wants you to trust him is the one you must fear the most.”

“I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.”

“What is a highbrow? He is a man who has found something more interesting than women.”

“Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.”

“War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.”

“One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”

“It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.”

“Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it?”

“You can't condemn me for wanting you, unless you condemn every other man who has."

-Clayton Westmoreland”

“A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.”

“I find it rude to laugh at a man with a sword.”

“We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.”

“A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.”

“Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?”

“I love you, man. You rule! Thanks for the food. It touches me deep in my tender place. (Sway)
I don’t want to know nothing about your tender place, you freak. (Devyn)”

“When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.”

“Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.”

“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed”

“Cabbage, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.”

“There is no knowing what is in a man's heart.”

“It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword."
--- Ingtar Shinowa ---”

“By Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.”

“Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.”

“The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.”

“Stephanie could see the greed seep into the watery eyes of her
father’s other brother, a horrible little man called Fergus, as he
nodded sadly and spoke sombrely and pocketed the silverware
when he thought no one was looking”

“Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.”

“As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.”

“A real man's weapon is his mind.”

“More like Cross blew your circuits during one of his sexathons. Still can’t get over that man’s stamina. Wish he’d swing my way and wear me out.”

“friendship and love blind every man to their interests.”

“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”

“Look well on this, my son," said the green-skinned man, "for one day I shall rule a clockwork kingdom of such beings, and you shall be its prince.”

“The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.”

“Agent Jones held Sinjin’s face in his hands. “I’m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.”
“How right you are, strange delusional man,” Sinjin said.”

“My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.”

“The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.”

“Man" Rhage muttered, "someone hit this place with the Hallmark stick."

Until it broke.”

“I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.”

“There was a loud cough from the man on the stand. I replaced My Magic Mirror carefully on his tray, gave him a cheesy smile, and went my way.”

“Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof.”

“But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33)”

“A man's library is a sort of harem.”

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
- Atticus Finch”

“Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.”

“I was my own woman.
The next step was to find the proper sort of man.”

“How old are you Johnny" she asked.
Sixteen."
And what's that-a boy or a man?"
He laughed. "A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war.”

“Jean-Luc glanced at the coach. "Who is that man? What is that machine?"
"It's a dunking booth."
"Ah, I understand." Jean-Luc nodded. "If he dose not drown, then he is a witch"
"No, he's just a creep. It's a game.”

“The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.”

“…as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.”

“Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.”

“The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.”

“A man without a vote is a man without protection.”

“Neither a wise man or a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”

“Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.”

“Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson."

"Lake and Palmer?"

"Ralph and Waldo.”

“Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.”

“It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.”

“A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune”

“Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”

“The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.”

“It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.”

“the poisonous world flows into my mouth like water into that of a drowning man”

“Somehow the pantsless gay man is not bringing the romance, Scott.”

“The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.”

“Oh, London is a man’s town, there’s power in the air;
And Paris is a woman’s town, with flowers in her hair;
And it’s sweet to dream in Venice, and it’s great to study Rome;
But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.”

“It is not time that changes man nor knowledge the only thing that can change someone's mind is love.”