Man Quotes

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook.

A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.