Man Quotes

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.

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.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.