Man Quotes

I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.