Man Quotes

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

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.