Man Quotes

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.