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.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

One man with courage makes a majority.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Let no such man be trusted.