Man Quotes

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Man lives by imagination.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.