Man Quotes

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be a s big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

There's many a man has more hair than wit.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.