Man Quotes

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

A man in the house is worth two in the street.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.