Man Quotes
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The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
George Bernard Shaw -
If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.
Oscar Wilde
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A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.
E. B. White -
If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man.
Stevie Wonder -
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
Thomas Hobbes -
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
Henry Ward Beecher
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But it seemed that for every competent man or woman there was an incompetent man above. It was the law of trickle-up irresponsibility. And the competent man and woman spent so much time manipulating the incompetent men they had neither the time nor the motivation to do their jobs properly.
Colin Cotterill -
One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.
Honore de Balzac -
An ordinary man away from home giving advice.
Oscar Wilde -
They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.
Iris Johansen -
No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.
Epictetus -
I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.
Muhammad Ali
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My soul is too glad and too great to be at heart the enemy of any man.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
Abraham Lincoln -
A sad man, is man with the lights turned off.
Arsenie Boca -
The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
Albert Camus -
I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.
Pythagoras
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I'm really a pussycat and this [bad-boy] image has been totally overblown for 30 years. Sure, I used to rumble a little but I don't do that stuff anymore. I'm an old man now. When you reach your 50s, you realise that if you don't mellow, you won't last.
George C. Scott -
I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.
Saskia de Brauw -
But when she got undressed, it was a big old mess, Sheena was a man...
Tone Loc -
The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.
Abraham Lincoln