Man Quotes

Man lives for science as well as bread.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.

Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.