Man Quotes

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.