Man Quotes

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Man lives by imagination.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.