Man Quotes

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

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

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.