Quotes about man

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“If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large ego must be in want of a woman to cut him down to size”

“I'm not the first or the last
to stand on a hillock,
watching the man she married
prove to the world
he's a total, utter, absolute, Grade A pillock.”

“A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.”

“He was a man without a past, whose future was the imminent grave and whose present was a bitter fever of living.”

“Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.”

“No man of any intelligence would pretend to know a female mind.”

“the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future”

“In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.”

“Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.”

“Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.”

“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”

“What about Myrnin?'
Eve swallowed, almost choked, and Michael patted her kindly on the back. She beamed at him. 'Myrnin? Oh yeah. He did a Batman and took off into the night. What isthat guy, Claire? If he was a superhero, he'd be Bipolar Man.”

“But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.”

“Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream.”

“I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.”

“I'd do almost anything for you. I think I'd kill for you. But I'm not going to comfort you while you cry in my arms over another man. - Gage Travis”

“A man in debt is so far a slave.”

“No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.”

“It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.”

“Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.”

“No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do”

“If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.”

“Philokleon: Let each man exercise the art he knows.”

“A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.”

“Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.”

“He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.”

“This question is posed to mayself, am I a man who thinks he's an angel? Or an angel who thinks he's a man?”

“I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.”

“Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.”

“He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.”

“When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.”

“This is so American, man: either make something your god and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.”

“You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't a true love.. the love that speaks the language of the world.”

“We shall all have to be judged according to our works, whether they be towards man or towards beast.”

“When power leads men towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.”

“When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself”

“A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.”

“You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it.”

“I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.”

“You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.”

“The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything…”

“The desire for knowledge shapes a man.”

“Thankfully I’m not most women. I don’t get off on danger. I get off on a man with strong moral fiber. The closest Barrons ever gets to fiber is walking down the cereal aisle at the grocery store.”

“One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. [p.111]”

“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.”

“A man's immortality can be found in his children.”

“Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the colour in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty, and your animal spirits, and you will pass for a fine man.”

“It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.”

“Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman.”

“There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange there from too much sky, too many miles from crack to crease in the flat surface of the land.”

“Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”

“No wise man ever wished to be younger.”

“We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can
play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the
morning.”

“Saying you like "Piano Man" doesn't mean you like Billy Joel; it means you're willing to go to a piano bar if there's nothing else to do”

“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”

“In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”

“Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?”

“A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.”

“There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.”

“There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley”

“A wise man once said that we can't make anyone feel or do anything. We can throw things into the wind, but it's up to each person to decide how they want to react, where they want to stand when things fall.”

“You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it!”

“It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.”

“For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.”

“No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

“Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down to a naked man who's nailed to a cross? It's like a bad leather bar.”

“A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.”

“No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.”

“The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.”

“You foolish man. Of course there's love. Don't you know? I love you.”

“Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking.
- Tin Man”

“It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.”

“She's my baby girl, Quinn. I want love for her. Real love. The kind that makes a man crazy inside.

-Gibraltar to Quinn”

“A woman is human.

She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man.

Likewise, she is never less.

Equality is a given.

A woman is human.”

“The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.”

“Oh, come on," Clary said. "You're a vampire, not Spider-Man.”

“You know,” Cecily said, “you really didn’t have to throw that man through the window.”

“Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.”

“When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back”

“To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol.”

“Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.”

“No Daimon gets out of here alive. (They hit the invisible wall and rebounded off it.) Man. It really makes you feel for the bug on the windshield, doesn’t it? (Acheron)”

“Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.”

“You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant."
"We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.”

“To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.”

“I’m not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It’s a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil.”

“What about a Princess Bride?"
"Where are we gonna find a six-fingered man on such short notice?”

“A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.”

“A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.”

“You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.”

“Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Marcus Aurelius”

“If a man can possess a woman sexually -really possess- he won't need to control her ideas, her opinions, her clothes, her friends, even her other lovers.”

“I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I could respect him.”

“I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, digging my nails into my palms, staring at the inside of my eyelids as though I could maybe see through them if I peered hard enough.”

“Man, they got mosquitoes 'round this place big enough to rape a chicken.”

“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”

“A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a theif or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist.”

“Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with Man is Man.”