Man Quotes
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The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
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The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove that there must be any specific existence behind such a concept. We are succumbing to illusions produced by our self-created language, without reaching a better understanding of anything. Most of so-called philosophy is due to this kind of fallacy.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess 'em.
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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.
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What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.
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The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.
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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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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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Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.
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Between the dark lakes where the dark rivers flowthere is no ferry waiting on the shore of rockand no man holding a long oar,ready to take your last coin.This is the real earth and the real water it contains.
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I'm a man of faith.
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The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.
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I'm not a golfing man.
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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
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Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
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Every old man that dies is a library that burns.
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The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible.
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The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
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My big fish must be somewhere.
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Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.
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I know also another man who married a widow with several children; and when one of the girls had grown into her teens he insisted on marrying her also, having first by some means won her affections. The mother, however, was much opposed to this marriage, and finally gave up her husband entirely to her daughter; and to this very day the daughter bears children to her stepfather, living as wife in the same house with her mother!
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God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.
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I've not been right for any man or myself since I met you.
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Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.
