Man Quotes

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten".

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.