Man Quotes
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There is simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who is not. It is simply unreasonable to expect that an armed man should obey one who is unarmed, or that an unarmed man should remain safe and secure when his servants are armed.
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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.
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The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.
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Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.
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I'm the most recognised and loved man that ever lived.
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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.
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To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.
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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
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I'm not a golfing man.
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Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
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A man of wisdom delights in water.
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A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.
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A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
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If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.
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The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.
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By helping to raise man above the level of bestial vegetation, faith contributes in reality to the securing and safeguarding of his existence. Take away from present-day mankind its education-based, religious-dogmatic principles- or, practically speaking, ethical-moral principles- by abolishing this religious education, but without replacing it by an equivalent, and the result will be a grave shock to the foundations of their existence.
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For a man to become a poet, he must be in love, or miserable.
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Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
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The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.
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You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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If someone is a lesbian, it's man's fault.
