Man Quotes

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.