Man Quotes
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If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!
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I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s, although I remember in a nineteenth-century Russian novel someone remarked that a character was a typical man of the 1830s - progressive and an atheist.
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Research indicates that most women want their man to earn more than they do.
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It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.
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Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.
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I'm human. I'm a person. I would love to be in a relationship with a man. I would love to find the right man; I think that's natural - that's what we all want.
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If I had been thinking business since I was 21, I'd be a rich man right now.
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Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.
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When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrashed himself.
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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
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It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who've done music well and movies well, and y'know, Frank Sinatra and Elvis and all these dudes have made the transition. I don't know about Elvis, 'bout doin' 'em good, y'know? It's nothin' new.
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I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.
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I like a mannish man: a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman - not just a man with muscles.
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A true man does not only stand up for himself, he stands up for those that do not have the ability to.
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Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.
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A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
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The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man. And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not?
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Someone will say he's too young of a guy. Well, only thee years ago they hired an older man who took them to the promised land.
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.
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The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.
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It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it.
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A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
