Man Quotes
- Page 40No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
Albrecht Durer
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
George Orwell
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
Robert Kennedy
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
Chanakya
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
Theodore Roosevelt
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel Johnson
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
Richard Whately
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
Orison Swett Marden
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
Margaret Thatcher
The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H. L. Mencken