Man Quotes

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

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.

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.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.