Quotes about man page 50
Andy Stanley (1958) American Christian minister
Source: Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You
“The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.”
John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic
Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
“Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.”
Milan Kundera book Immortality
Source: Immortality
“.. the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.”
Yann Martel book Life of Pi
Variant: We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
Source: Life of Pi
U.G. Krishnamurti (1918–2007) Indian philosopher
Part 2: The Mystique of Enlightenment
The Mystique of Enlightenment (1982)
Source: The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U.G. Krishnamurti
Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer
Source: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Strikes
“Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.”
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
Source: The Origin of Species
“A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.”
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) American science fiction and fantasy writer
Source: Harvest of Stars
“Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
“Disinterested love for all living creatures, the most noble attribute of man.”
Charles Darwin book The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
volume I, chapter III: "Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals — continued", page 105 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=118&itemID=F937.1&viewtype=image <br class="br">The Descent of Man (1871)
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“A beautiful woman can make herself
look ugly in the eyes of a man if she is very insecure.”
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
John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Chapter III
“The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?”
Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) French philosopher
“The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.”
Anaïs Nin book A Spy in the House of Love
Source: A Spy in the House of Love (1954)
Francine Rivers (1947) American writer
Source: Redeeming Love
Robert A. Heinlein book The Past Through Tomorrow
“If This Goes On—” Chapter 10, p. 426
The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
Source: Revolt in 2100/Methuselah's Children
Context: “Do you seriously expect to start a rebellion with picayune stuff like that?”
“It’s not picayune stuff, because it acts directly on their emotions, below the logical level. You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. It doesn’t have to be a prejudice about an important matter either.
James Joyce book Dubliners
"A Painful Case"
Source: Dubliners (1914)
Context: One of his sentences, written two months after his last interview with Mrs. Sinico, read: Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
“God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“Half-man, half-beast, all nightmare. The shapeshifter warrior form.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
“It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.”
Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear (2011), Chapter 43, “The Flickering Way” (p. 318)
“The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.”
Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author
“The wise man reads both books and life itself.”
Lin Yutang book The Importance of Living
Source: The Importance of Living (1937), p. 388
“The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
“Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.”
Farley Mowat (1921–2014) Canadian author and environmentalist
“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.”
James Allen (1864–1912) British philosophical writer
“The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.”
Jon Krakauer book Into the Wild
Source: Into the Wild
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)
Source: The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Civil Disobedience (1849)
Source: Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
Context: Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
Context: To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it. After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule, is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience? — in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable? Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience. Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.
“If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?”
Stanisław Lem (1921–2006) Polish science fiction author
John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
Modern version: No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
Meditation 17. This was the source for the title of Ernest Hemingway's novel.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
Source: Meditation XVII - Meditation 17
Context: No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One
Variant: He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.
Source: The Lucky One
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: The Darkest Secret
“It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.”
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
“I never learned from a man who agreed with me.”
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author
“I want a man as nice as my retarded dog, but one that doesn't crap on the floor.”
Laurie Notaro American writer
Source: The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life
“There's nothing sexier in a man than intelligence.”
Susan Elizabeth Phillips book It Had to Be You
Source: It Had to Be You
“You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.”
Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author
Variant: She soon says, "You're my best friend, Ed."
You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.
Source: I Am the Messenger
“She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.”
Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
23 July 1827
Table Talk (1821–1834)
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Again the Magic
“There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight”
Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic
“Each man delights in the work that suits him best.”
XIV. 228 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Source: The Odyssey
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
A Memorable Fancy
1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793)
“A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Lynsay Sands Canadian writer
Source: A Quick Bite
“I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947) actor, businessman and politician of Austrian-American heritage