Man Quotes

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

One rich Man hath Lands, not only more than he can manage, but so much, that letting them out to others, he is supplied with a large over-plus, so needs no farther care.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

A man's kiss is his signature.

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.

A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.