Man Quotes

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

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.