Man Quotes
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The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.
Charles Dickens
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No man or woman in this dispensation will ever enter into the celestial kingdom of God without the consent of Joseph Smith...every man and woman must have the certificate of Joseph Smith, junior, as a passport to their entrance into the mansion where God and Christ are...
Brigham Young
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A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.
Ted Shawn
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I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
J. D. Salinger
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I do not believe that a man should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after death or that he should do things only because in this way he will be rewarded after he dies. This does not make sense. The proper guidance during the life of a man should be the weight that he puts upon ethics and the amount of consideration that he has for others.
Albert Einstein
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Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
Nikolai Gogol
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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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Every man is his own worst enemy.
Queen Christina
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It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
Joseph Roux
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And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.
Anthony Quinn
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Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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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 always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.
Muhammad Ali
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It should be easy for a man who's strong to say he's sorry or admit when he's wrong.
Billy Joel
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Let me tell you now a man of my position can afford to look ridiculous at any time.
Randy Savage
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It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.
Oscar Wilde
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Man, who don't like spaghetti?
Jack Roy
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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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I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.
Oriana Fallaci
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A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.
Dorothy Dunnett
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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
J. Paul Getty
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The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
Bob Marley