Man Quotes

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

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?

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.