Man Quotes

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.