Man Quotes

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Man is by nature a political animal.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.