Man Quotes
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The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to each man assuredly is. If this is so, it follows that the same thing both is and is not, and is bad and good, and that the contents of all other opposite statements are true, because often a particular thing appears beautiful to some and ugly to others, and that which appears to each man is the measure.
Aristotle
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Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as well as among the most frustrating and humiliating.
John D. Voelker
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
Hippocrates
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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.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.
Confucius
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No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.
Henry Ward Beecher
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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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Lil Wayne is the man.
Anthony Henderson
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
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Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I ask you, what am I? I’m one of the undeserving poor: thats what I am. Think of what that means to a man.
George Bernard Shaw
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I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
Jane Austen
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
