Man Quotes

Even the strongest man needs friends.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.