Man Quotes

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.