Quotes about man page 61
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
Article 19 <br class="br"> "Declaration of Rights" http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/PShelley/declarat.html (1812)
Dave Eggers book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
“A man leads with his mind while a woman leads with her heart.”
Myles Munroe (1954–2014) Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister
Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage
Laura Hillenbrand book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
“The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.”
Stephen King book Pet Sematary
Jud speaking to Louis, after the burying the cat
Source: Pet Sematary (1983)
Context: They are secret things. Women are supposed to be the ones good at keeping secrets, and I guess they do keep a few, but any woman who knows anything at all would tell you she's never really seen into any man's heart. The soil of a man's heart is stonier, Louis - like the soil up there in the old Micmac burying ground. Bedrock's close. A man grows what he can... and he tends it.
“The man in ecstasy and the man drowning—both throw up their arms.”
Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author
Source: Blue Octavo Notebooks
“My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
“Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948) Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Source: Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
“Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.”
Leo Rosten (1908–1997) American writer
Although a very common misconception is to attribute the final part of this quote to W.C. Fields himself, it was actually first said about him by Rosten during a "roast" of Fields at the Masquer's Club in Hollywood in 1939, as Rosten explains in his book, The Power of Positive Nonsense (1977).
Context: The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields … is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
“the man
inside of woman
ties a knot
so that they will
never again be separate…”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World
al'Lan Mandragoran to Nynaeve al'Meara
(15 January 1990)
Source: The Eye of the World
“I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.”
Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer
Source: The Quick and the Dead
“Adversity introduces a man to himself.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer
Source: The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of the Arabian Nights
“A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic dead or alive - Hajime Saito”
Nobuhiro Watsuki (1970) Japanese manga artist
Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
A variant — "Professor Einstein, the learned scientist, once calculated that if all bees disappeared off the earth, four years later all humans would also have disappeared" — appears in The Irish Beekeeper, v.19-20, 1965-66, p74, citing Abeilles et Fleurs (Bees and Flowers, the house magazine of Union Nationale de l'Apiculture Française) for June 1965. Snopes.com mentions its use in a beekeepers' protest in 1994 in Europe http://www.snopes.com/quotes/einstein/bees.asp suggesting invention and attribution to Einstein for political reasons. <br class="br">Misattributed
“Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap.”
Max Stirner (1806–1856) German philosopher
As quoted in Forbes Vol. 78 (1956), and in Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia (1962) by Jacob Morton Braude, p. 275
Context: Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Fate's Edge
“Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.”
Franz Kafka book The Trial
Source: The Trial (1920), Ch. 10
Context: Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. Where was the judge he had never seen? Where was the High Court he had never reached? He raised his hands and spread out all his fingers. But the hands of one of the men closed round his throat, just as the other drove the knife deep into his heart and turned it twice.
“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
“The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit — a reputation, character.”
John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) American business magnate and philanthropist
The Men Who Are Making America (1918) by Bertie Charles Forbes
“But man is not made for defeat... a man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea
Variant: A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Source: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
“Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.”
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Dutch philosopher
“A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.”
Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director
Un muerto en España está más vivo como muerto que en ningún sitio del mundo.
"Theory and Play of the Duende" from A Poet in New York (1940)
“We born dyin'… But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.”
Walter Mosley (1952) American writer
Source: The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
“Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.”
John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer
“I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.”
Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls
“To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Source: Some Mistakes of Moses
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior
“Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.”
Joe Haldeman book The Forever War
Source: The Forever War
“Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
Source: A Mencken Chrestomathy
“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
George Eliot book Impressions of Theophrastus Such
Source: Impressions of Theophrastus Such, Ch, 4 (1879); comparable to. James Russell Lowell 1871: Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it. https://books.google.de/books?id=YRmn-_vXZ58C&pg=PA102&dq=persuaded
“As the saying goes: God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal.”
Ann Coulter book If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
“When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.”
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
“Virtue (or the man of virtue) is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Analects, Chapter IV
“The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.”
Dan Brown book The Lost Symbol
Source: The Lost Symbol
“Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”
Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men
Source: No Country for Old Men
“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Letter (6 December 1924); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker