Man Quotes

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.