Man Quotes

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.

I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

An honest man is always a child.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.