Man Quotes

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

A man in the house is worth two in the street.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.