Man Quotes

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.

Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.