Man Quotes

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.