Man Quotes

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?"

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.