Quotes about man

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“It's a man's business to be what he is, and to be it in style.”

“You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo”

“There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.”

“After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.”

“Sometimes lying was the better part of valor and the only way to save a man’s butt.”

“No one had ever said such things to her before. People were intimidated by her self-possession and no-nonsense demeanor. No man would ever dream of calling her adorable, sweet, darling… and certainly no one had ever made herthat way.”

“There is nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.”

“If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,… it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.”

“What makes a man a man? A friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.”

“To find a man's true character, play golf with him.”

“mr youse needn't be so spry
concernin questions arty

each has his tastes but as for i
i likes a certain party

gimme the he-man's solid bliss
for youse ideas i'll match youse

a pretty girl who naked is
is worth a million statues”

“Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak.”

“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”

“The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.”

“Never trust a man who reads only one book.”

“You know, I would date if I could find a man worth shaving my legs for. But most are such a waste of time that I’d rather sit at home and watch reruns of Hee Haw.”

“Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.”

“Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.”

“The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing.”

“People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation.”

“The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.”

“Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.”

“[I]t is the wine that leads me on,
the wild wine
that sets the wisest man to sing
at the top of his lungs,
laugh like a fool – it drives the
man to dancing… it even
tempts him to blurt out stories
better never told.”

“But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.”

“Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.”

“Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man?”

“Nykyrian gave him a feral grimace. But when he spoke, his soft, lilting tone belied his fierce expression. “Syn… what can I say? I love you, man. I can’t live without you. are the air I breathe.”

“Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced.
A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.”

“Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.”

“In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.”

“Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.”

“… if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust….”

“Why'd you want to sing about sad things?" Candy had asked him.
"Because any fool can be happy," he'd said to her.
"It takes a man with real heart"
—he'd made a fist and laid it against his chest—
"to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”

“I thinkis man talk for.”

“Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.”

“If the average man is made in God's image, then such a man as Beethoven oris plainly superior to God….”

“Crow walked toward her, arms outstretched like a man in a dream, which he was, in a way. Sometimes a dream is enough.”

“The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?”

“What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.”

“A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.”

“A woman at a certain age who is unmarried, our society teaches her to see it as a deep personal failure. And a man, after a certain age isn’t married, we just think he hasn’t come around to making his pick.”

“Ha!' said the tall man drily. 'He was in high luck. Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply.”

“There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.”

“If the world is ending, a woman will want time to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take time to to tell a man something he's done wrong.”

“Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way”

“It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.”

“Max Ernst died the 1st of August 1914. He resuscitated the 11th of November 1918 as a young man aspiring to become a magician and to find the myth of his time.”

“Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.”

“More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man or a woman?”

“He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.”

“Modern mass culture, aimed at the "consumer", the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.”

“Do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”

“What are you?
"A man with a rope?"
"Ha-ha.”

“A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.”

“She remember her granny telling her, 'Men are like coal boilers, Ellie. If you find a man you reckon to keep, you got to feed his belly every day, make him burn for you, then release some steam purty regular, or you ain't ever gonna get him to work.”

“Being with a man incapable of telling a lie – a whole lot of awesome. Being with a man who could taste when you lied – sucked the big one.”

“Jenks squinted at me, and when Trent nodded, the pixy gestured sourly to Bis to get on with it. A four inch man ruled us all.”

“We are the Edema Ruh, and the thing we value most every man possesses. You can tell us your story.”

“ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.”

“I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.”

“No man is an island, entire of itself.”

“Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.”

“It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that.

"And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated.”

“Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.”

“Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!”

“Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.”

“If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.”

“The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.”

“I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.”

“I had no shoes and I pitied myself. Then I met a man who had no feet,
so I took his shoes.”

“A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more stupid.”

“Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees”

“Feast, and your halls are crowded
Fast, and the world goes by
Succeed and give, and it helps you live
But no man can help you die”

“Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo."

Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be a tree, didn't you? Glad you're back. I hate it when pretty girls turn into trees. Man, I remember one time—”

“I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.”

“A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.”

“There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.”

“A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.”

“A man has as many social selves as there are distinct groups of persons about whose opinion he cares. He generally shows a different side of himself to each of these different groups.”

“MARIE    I’m saying that the right man for you might be out there right now and if you don’t grab him, someone else will, and you’ll have to spend the rest of your life knowing that someone else is married to your husband.”

“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”

“The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.”

“Man struggles to survive, not to succumb”

“The mind of man is capable of anything.”

“It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.”

“What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.”

“The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you’re a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence.”

“Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too.”

“Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.”

“every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forget this map. (p. 18)”

“Every man dies, not every man really lives”

“Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.”

“Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, "I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who.”

“I’m being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it’s not polite.”

“A wise man travels to discover himself.”

“The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P. M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for this small dim man to go back to Texas and resume his life.”

“A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures…”

“Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.”

“And while seeing Trent in his tighty-whities would make my decade, I’d found out long ago that I couldn’t stay mad at a man wearing nothing but underwear. They looked so charmingly vulnerable.”