Quotes about man

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“A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain”

“There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.”

“Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”

“If the statue engulfs people in fire, we should send Leo.’
‘I love you too, man.’
‘You know what I mean. You’re immune. Or, heck, give me some of those nice water grenades and I’ll go. Ares and I have tangled before.”

“Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone-quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.”

“A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.”

“A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.”

“A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.”

“Loving a man shouldn't have to be this rough”

“Of course she'd told him she would, but if the man hadn't registered her sarcasm, then he wasn't making full use of his ears.”

“Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken....”

“Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.”

“The function of man is to live, not to exist.”

“The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.”

“Leave it to a man to mess things up”

“It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.”

“Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.”

“Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.”

“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”

“Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.”

“The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.”

“Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French. One of the things which Gertrude Butterwick had impressed on Monty Bodkin when he left for his holiday on the Riviera was that he must be sure to practise his French, and Gertrude’s word was law. So now, though he knew that it was going to make his nose tickle, he said:
‘Er, garçon.’
‘M’sieur?’
‘Er, garçon, esker-vous avez un spot de l’encre et une piece de papier—note papier, vous savez—et une envelope et une plume.’
The strain was too great. Monty relapsed into his native tongue.
‘I want to write a letter,’ he said. And having, like all lovers, rather a tendency to share his romance with the world, he would probably have added ‘to the sweetest girl on earth’, had not the waiter already bounded off like a retriever, to return a few moments later with the fixings.
‘V’la, sir! Zere you are, sir,’ said the waiter. He was engaged to a girl in Paris who had told him that when on the Riviera he must be sure to practise his English. ‘Eenk—pin—pipper—enveloppe—and a liddle bit of bloddin-pipper.’
‘Oh, merci,’ said Monty, well pleased at this efficiency. ‘Thanks. Right-ho.’
‘Right-ho, m’sieur,’ said the waiter.”

“A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.”

“Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that’s my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!”

“But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him… or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.”

“The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.”

“If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose your temper, your equilibrium, then he can always keep you under subjection.”

“The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.”

“We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill… we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.”

“A man could get used to anything if he had to.”

“A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.”

“Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.”

“Man's memory shapes
Its own Eden within”

“I'm an old man, and she's gone now. So don't worry, okay?”

“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”

“Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.”

“Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired…”

“We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.”

“The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.”

“Good tuna-fish sandwiches; he’s the tallest man I’ve ever seen! (Pam)”

“She understood his eyes, colder than winter's heart. A man who knew he was dead and couldn't make himself care; you are spared that. Mashiara. His lost love.”

“The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man”

“He should be careful. It's dangerous to be an honest man.”

“The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.”

“No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.”

“A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.”

“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”

“You're the only man I know who can have sex with a woman who looks that good and be in this bad a mood ten minutes later. Damn, didn't you know sex is supposed to make you feel better? (Nick)”

“Good and great are seldom in the same man.”

“There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the perfect man. With absolutely no resemblance to reality.”

“Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a fool, not for wanting him, but for wanting more of him than that.”

“A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class”

“Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life”

“You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.”

“The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.”

“When a man wears his pants that tight, they tend to pinch his balls, and that tends to pinch his temper.”

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”

“Man is what he reads.”

“But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.”

“Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.”

“Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.”

“The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.”

“Knock her dead, my man."
"Oh no." Xcor shook his head."That shan't be necessary. This one I like.”

“Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.”

“Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.”

“One should never marry a man who doesn’t own a decent set of scissors. That would be my advice. It leads to bad things.”

“The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.”

“A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.”

“The real test of a man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself, but how well he plays the role that destiny assigned to him.”

“We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities… still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.”

“Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.”

“How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.”

“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”

“She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.”

“One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.”

“I deserve passion," she said. "I deserve to be loved- in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment..”

“It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.”

“In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.”

“Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.”

“The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.”

“The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without”

“Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.”

“A man is only as old as the woman he feels.”

“Never run after a man or a bus, there's always another one in five minutes.”

“Yeah, well, I’ll be glad to birth it if it means I can name him something normal. (Zarek)
Yeah, yeah. This from a man who whines like a two-year-old when he stubs his toe. I’d like to see you survive ten hours of childbirth. (Astrid)”

“A writer once said that it is not time that changes man, nor knowledge; the only thing that can change someone's mind is love. What nonsense! The person who wrote that clearly knew only one side of the coin.”

“For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.”

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.”

“I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships.”

“Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.”

“That's a lovely piece," Kat said, pointing at a Louise XV armoire near the fireplace.
The man raised his eyebrows. "Did you come to steal it?"
"Darn it," Kat said with a snap of her fingers."I knew I should have brought my big purse.”

“You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.”

“Beware the fury of a patient man.”

“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”

“The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux.”

“Perhaps," said the man, "you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others.”

“Man wonders but God decides
When to kill the Prince of Tides.”

“Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.”

“Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.”