Man Quotes

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

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.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.