Man Quotes

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.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

One man with courage is a majority.

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.

I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

An honest man is always a child.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.