Man Quotes

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

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.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

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

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

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 begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.