Man Quotes

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Even the strongest man needs friends.

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

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.

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.