Man Quotes

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.

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.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.

A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.