Man Quotes
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Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl Jung
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He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.
Frances Wright
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And even if these scenes from our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender, secret influence that passed from them into us could not rise again. We might be amongst them and move in them; we might remember and love them and be stirred by the sight of them. But it would be like gazing at the photograph of a dead comrade; those are his features, it is his face, and the days we spent together take on a mournful life in the memory; but the man himself it is not.
Erich Maria Remarque
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One don't like setting out to help to bring a man to the gallus when you have got his money in your pocket.
G.A. Henty
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There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks.
Laura Dern
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Don’t worry about being normal. It’s an awful thing to aspire to.
Gary Janetti
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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
Gaston Bachelard
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Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
Charles Dickens
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Man is bound to lie about himself.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Man, who don't like spaghetti?
Jack Roy
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You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
George Bernard Shaw
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Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
Cintra Wilson
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I know that Donald Trump is a smart man.
Omari Hardwick
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The man with a peaceful nest to fly home to, has everything; there is no effort he will not make for his mate and offspring.
Christina Stead
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Maybe the difference between being a boy and being a man is that boys couldn’t control the awful things they sometimes felt. And men could. That afternoon, I was just a boy. Not even close to being a man.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
Alan Paton
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Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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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Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.
Socrates
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I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli