Man Quotes

I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

A hard man is good to find.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.