Man Quotes

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

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.

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.

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.

Man lives in a world of meaning.

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.