Man Quotes

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

A hard man is good to find.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.