Man Quotes

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

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.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

I would never disrespect any man, woman, chick or child out there. We're all the same. What goes around comes around, and karma kicks us all in the butt in the end of the day.

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.