Man Quotes
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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?
Oscar Wilde
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A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
Idries Shah
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I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.
George Bernard Shaw
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I always knew I'd be more of a character actor than a leading man, and I always wanted to take that and run with it.
B. D. Wong
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Good to know we're all twelve years old mentally. Keeps things in perspective.
Alex Gaskarth All Time Low
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I want to be paid fairly for the work that I'm doing. That's what every single woman around the world wants. We want to be paid on parity with a man in a similar position.
Felicity Jones
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I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'
Lane Garrison
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God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.
John Locke Nazareth
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Beyond naming you in my prayers, Thekyn, there is but little that a hermit can do for any man.
G.A. Henty
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A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
Samuel Johnson
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Samuel Johnson
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The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.
Alec Waugh
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A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.
Olin Miller
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The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
Harlan Coben
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I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.
Tom Hanks
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He was not a man of icy nature, but he loved to gather icicles about him.
Hall Caine
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Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other, not having a rational principle in itself, is able to obey such a principle. And we call a man in any way good because he has the virtues of these two parts.
Aristotle
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You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.
Aristotle
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Remove the document—and you remove the man.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.
Carly Fiorina
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In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled.
Patrick Kavanagh
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I love playing rock music, man. You give me a guitar in my hands, and I go out there, and, for me, it's like...you know, some dudes like hunting, fishing, going out and playing ball in the backyard with their buddies on a rainy day. I like being out with my buddies playing rock guitar. That's what I love to do.
Robby Takac Goo Goo Dolls