Man Quotes

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten".

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.