Man Quotes

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.