Man Quotes

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Man is by nature a political animal.