Man Quotes
- Page 38It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H. L. Mencken
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
Henry David Thoreau
A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
Marlene Dietrich
The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
Mason Cooley
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
Denis Waitley
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel Johnson
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
Richard P. Feynman
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
George Bernard Shaw
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
James Madison
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Malcolm X
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
Blaise Pascal
If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Saint Augustine
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
Zhuangzi
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln