Man Quotes

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Every man dies. Not every man lives.

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.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.