Man Quotes
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The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?
Idries Shah
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If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
Albert Einstein
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It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
Tallulah Bankhead
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I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.
Thomas A. Edison
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The man of knowledge acquires something new everyday, and the man of Tao lets go of something new every day.
Lao Tzu
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
Plotinus
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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.
Don Zimmer
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It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.
Oswald Chambers
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A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.
Oscar Wilde
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Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.
William Faulkner
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The flag is a symbol of the fact that man is still a herd animal.
Albert Einstein
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Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.
Daniel Barenboim
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No one is such a liar as the indignant man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.
Oscar Wilde
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Touring is a young man's game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
Barry Manilow
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God is Man's greatest invention.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free/to be more like the man you were made to be.
Marcus Mumford Mumford & Sons
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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A man must feel a little bit of fear, even if just to fell pride when he conquers it.
Conn Iggulden
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She was the best business partner any man ever had.
John Jacob Astor
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I am not a normal man.
Stevie Wonder
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Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
Wilkie Collins
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If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings!
Maimonides
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The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.
Alec Waugh