Man Quotes

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

A true man hates no one.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.