Man Quotes

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.

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.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.