Man Quotes
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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.
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A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.
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Science is all very well when a man can afford to make it his hobby, but I have come to the conclusion that a man has no right to ride a hobby while his family have to work to make a living.
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If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.
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A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time.
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To expect this larger-than-life, holier-than-thou sort of existence from us is not possible. We as much want to make our own mistake as a man does.
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I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.
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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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When a bull is being lead to the slaughter, it still hopes to break loose and trample its butchers. Other bulls have not been able to pass on the knowledge that this never happens and that from the slaughterhouse there is no way back to the herd. But in human society there is a continuous exchange of experience. I have never heard of a man who broke away and fled while being led to his execution. It is even thought to be a special form of courage if a man about to be executed refuses to be blindfolded and dies with his eyes open. But I would rather have the bull with his blind rage, the stubborn beast who doesn't weigh his chances of survival with the prudent dull-wittedness of man, and doesn't know the despicable feeling of despair.
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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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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
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The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.
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If a woman possessed the unfortunate combination of delicate skin, thin eyebrows, a curving spine and a ‘sharp tongue’, it would be almost impossible for a man to refrain from beating her.
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A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.
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There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.
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Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.
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Nobody is sicker than the man who is sick on his day off.
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The only thing that saved that man that night was I didn't have mine. That was it. Bottom line. I just slipped that night. But I won't ever slip again.
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.
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A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide.
