Man Quotes
-
A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.
Socrates -
Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself.
Sophocles
-
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
Stevie Wonder -
There's not a man in here that doesn't realize that Johnny makes us go. He's the catalyst.
Gabe Kapler -
The man had killed the thing he loved, And so he had to die.
Oscar Wilde -
Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.
Ralph Ransom -
I'm the most recognised and loved man that ever lived.
Muhammad Ali -
But the bravest man among us is afraid of himself.
Oscar Wilde
-
This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it is despicable, yet cannot be otherwise; that you no longer have any way out; that you will never become a different man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
Hippocrates -
Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.
Eric Burns -
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
John Milton -
My big fish must be somewhere.
Ernest Hemingway -
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
-
We have come to know Man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
Harold Kushner -
Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The power of love is a curious thing, make one man weep, make another man sing. Change a hawk to a little white dove, more than a feeling, that's the power of love.
Hugh Anthony Cregg III Clover -
Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
Oscar Wilde -
The absurd man is he who never changes.
Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy -
Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his drinking, for he took to that of his own notion.
Matthew Pearl
-
Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
You got to stand up and be a man. You can't just keep running off.
Eddie Levert The O'Jays -
Woe to the man who offends a small child!
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
For as Socrates says that a wise man is a citizen of the world, so I thought that a wise woman was equally at liberty to range through every station or degree of men, to fix her choice wherever she pleased.
Sarah Fielding