Man Quotes

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

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.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.