Quotes about man page 58
“Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.”
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
Source: The Songs Of David Bowie
“This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.”
Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic
“You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.”
Nikos Kazantzakis book Zorba the Greek
Source: Zorba the Greek
“What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?”
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher
Source: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.”
Harper Lee book Go Set a Watchman
Source: Go Set a Watchman
“What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?”
Alexandra Ivy (1961) American novelist
Source: Embrace The Darkness
“It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.”
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
“I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Source: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons
“No, he is not a ghost; he is a man of Heaven and earth, that is all.”
Gaston Leroux (1868–1927) French writer
Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist
Source: Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
“Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.”
Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist
Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man.
Source: 1970s, Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views (1979), p. 121
“the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.”
Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.”
Cheryl Strayed book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Joe Pitt Casebooks
Source: Already Dead, Character: Joe Pitt (narration)
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Devil in Winter
“No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder book The Long Winter
Source: The Long Winter
Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
“When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.”
Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
Sister Souljah (1964) American hip hop-generation author, activist, recording artist, and film producer
Sherwood Smith (1951) American fantasy and science fiction writer
Source: Court Duel
Maggie Shayne (1965) American writer
Source: Colder than Ice
“Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
“There is no God.
But it does not matter.
Man is enough.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Saving Francesca
“Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
“Because you know, I’m your best friend, but you’re just not that badass, man.”
Rachel Caine book Glass Houses
Source: Glass Houses
Sherry Argov (1977) American writer
Source: Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Source: Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
“I love not man the less, but nature more”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
“A man learns with age, if he is lucky.”
Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer
Source: When Demons Walk
“I'm a man of few words."
"If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.”
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
“A man can suffocate on courtesy.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
“How many roads must a man walk down?”
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.”
Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Variant: I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
Source: Marilyn
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer
Texts and Pretexts (1932), p. 5
Variant: Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Source: Texts & Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries
Context: The poet is, etymologically, the maker. Like all makers, he requires a stock of raw materials — in his case, experience. Now experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing and hearing the significant things, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and co-ordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves. By a happy dispensation of nature, the poet generally possesses the gift of experience in conjunction with that of expression.
“I'd never seen a man who could outshop me, but Jenks was a master.”
Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym
Source: A Fistful of Charms
“You really are a scary man, no really! If I had boots I would be quaking in them.”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
“marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!”
Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author
Source: Pleasure
“Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.”
Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001) British writer
Source: The Disorderly Knights
“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”
Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist
“the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
“I am nothing but a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man.”
Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White
Volume II [Tauchnitz,
Source: The Woman in White (1859)
