Man Quotes

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

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.