Man Quotes

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?"

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.