Man Quotes
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Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.
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Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.
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The man don't make the vision; the vision makes the man.
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The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
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.... In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.
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I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.
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It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician scientific proofs.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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There's not a man in here that doesn't realize that Johnny makes us go. He's the catalyst.
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Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until they became exasperated.
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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
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He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.
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Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures.
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Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.
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Give a bull grass, sweet water and a willing heifer and he is happy. But a man is never content. If no gadflies of worry exist he will invent them.
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I have travelled and been pretty much a one man operation for most of my career, and I think it'll continue to be that way.
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If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.
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If, by one determined purpose, the hearts of all the graduates, the officials, and the men of China were united, our country would rest upon a great rock, and we could defy the world to overthrow us. To attain this object, it is necessary first that every man should fulfill his duty to his parents and elders. The country would then be at peace.
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A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again.But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
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I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.
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I am the rich man's guru.
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My soul is too glad and too great to be at heart the enemy of any man.
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The other part of the true religion is our duty to man. We must love our neighbour as our selves, we must be charitable to all men for charity is the greatest of graces, greater then even faith or hope & covers a multitude of sins. We must be righteous & do to all men as we would they should do to us.
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The idea of difficulty animates us all the time. We don’t want man to be an angel; we want him to be a hero. That is to say, a man like us, but who does extraordinary things. He jumps, yes, but in spite of the law of gravity. And everything he does is always ‘in spite of.’
