Quotes about man page 52
“Ah, man, when Wolverine grows his face back, he's really gonna be pretty upset.”
Brian Michael Bendis (1967) American comic book writer and artist
Source: The New Avengers, Volume 2: Sentry
“A man with no enemies is a man with no character.”
Paul Newman (1925–2008) American actor and film director
Quoted in Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures, ed. Yann-Brice Dherbier and Pierre-Henri Verlhac (2006), p. 120
As quoted in Words of Wisdom : From the Greatest Minds of All Time (2004) by Mick Farren
Variant: If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.
“The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.”
Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Carr, Act I
Source: Travesties (1974)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
“Most women are starving to receive something from a man that they need to give to themselves”
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
“… Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
“We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.”
André Breton (1896–1966) French writer
Source: The Magnetic Fields
Jürgen Moltmann (1926) German Reformed theologian
Source: The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology
“Never marry a man you wouldn’t want to be divorced from.”
Nora Ephron book I Feel Bad About My Neck
Source: I Feel Bad About My Neck
“Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes.”
Joseph Delaney (1945) British writer
Source: Attack of the Fiend
“A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Source: The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child (1877)
Context: Only a few years ago there was a great awakening of the human mind. Men began to inquire by what right a crowned robber made them work for him? The man who asked this question was called a traitor. Others asked by what right does a robed hypocrite rule my thought? Such men were called infidels. The priest said, and the king said, where is this spirit of investigation to stop? They said then and they say now, that it is dangerous for man to be free. I deny it. Out on the intellectual sea there is room enough for every sail. In the intellectual air there is space enough for every wing.
The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
“An old man dies, a little girl lives. Fair trade.”
Frank Miller book That Yellow Bastard
Source: That Yellow Bastard
“The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.”
Stephen Crane book Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Source: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”
Samuel Butler book The Way of All Flesh
Source: The Way of All Flesh (1903), Ch. 19
“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.”
George Bernard Shaw The Apple Cart
The Apple Cart (1928), Act I
1920s
“A legend is merely a history man decided to bugger.”
Karen Chance American writer
Source: Hunt the Moon
“Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
L'homme est bien insensé. Il ne saurait forger un ciron, et forge des Dieux à douzaines.
Book II, Ch. 12
Essais (1595), Book II
Source: The Complete Essays
“There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) American children's writer, diarist, and journalist
Source: Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Wisdom and Virtues
David Hume (1711–1776) Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian
Letters
Source: Letters of David Hume 2 vols
“Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”
Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Source: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
“Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?”
Walker Percy book Love in the Ruins
Source: Love in the Ruins
“for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Rod Serling (1924–1975) American screenwriter
Ellen Cameron May, "Serling in Creative Mainstream" (profile/interview), Los Angeles Times (June 25, 1967), page C22-23.
Other
Context: I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.
“where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.”
Ernest Hemingway book Green Hills of Africa
Source: Green Hills of Africa
“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”
George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator
Maya Banks (1964) Author
Source: Sweet Surrender
“I am a road man for the lords of karma.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
“No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.”
Robin Hobb book Royal Assassin
Source: Royal Assassin
Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982) American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientious objector
“WHAT ARE YOU, NUTS? THE MAN'S A VAMPIRE!
Yeah, but he's a really, REALLY sexy one.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures
Source: Night Pleasures
“Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding”
Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974) Polish-born British mathematician
Sebastian Barry (1955) Irish author
Source: Days Without End: A Novel
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Source: The World As I See It
“Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.”
Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author
“This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.”
Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin
Source: The Blind Assassin
“A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much”
John Gay (1685–1732) English poet and playwright
Source: The Beggar's Opera
Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst
Source: Man for Himself (1947), Ch. 4 "Problems of Humanistic Ethics"
“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 5
Context: Maybe not you, buddy, but the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
Cornel West (1953) African-American philosopher and political/civil rights activist
Source: The Cornel West Reader
Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
Blood Meridian (1985)
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Context: The judge tilted his great head. The man who believes that the secrets of this world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957) Austrian-American psychoanalyst
Response to FDA complaint (1954)
Context: Inquiry in the realm of Basic Natural Law is outside the judicial domain of this or ANY OTHER KIND OF SOCIAL ADMINISTRATION ANYWHERE ON THIS GLOBE, IN ANY LAND, NATION, OR REGION.
Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word FREEDOM should ever be more than an empty political slogan.
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
"On Wit and Humour"
Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819)