Man Quotes

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

I would never disrespect any man, woman, chick or child out there. We're all the same. What goes around comes around, and karma kicks us all in the butt in the end of the day.

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

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.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

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

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

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.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

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