Man Quotes

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

A selfish man is a thief.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.