Man Quotes

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.