Man Quotes
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What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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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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Man who stands on toilet, gets high on pot!
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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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Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.
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There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able to reason logically, to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited.
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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.
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If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.
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If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.
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Be assured, he is not an ordinary man.
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The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present.
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It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.
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We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.
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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 more a man knows, the more he forgives.
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My great-grandfather was a man of great vision, drive, and native intelligence, with some human flaws amplified by limited education, limited social range, and questionable influence from some of his advisers.
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The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.
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I am the man, I suffered, I was there.
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Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. "Harpo my boy," he said, "I'm going to give you three pieces of advice, three things you should always remember." My heart jumped and I glowed with expectation. I was going to hear the magic password to a rich, full life from the master himself. "Yes sir?" I said. And he told me the three things. I regret that I've forgotten what they were.
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Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
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The world can do nothing to a Christian who has no fear of man.
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The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating.
