Man Quotes

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

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.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.