Man Quotes

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

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

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.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

One man with courage is a majority.

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.

I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.