Man Quotes

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.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

He was a wise man who invented beer.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.

No man was ever wise by chance.