Man Quotes

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.