Man Quotes
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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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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.
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The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.
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War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
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A man on a hiking trip through the Blue Ridge Mountains came to the top of a hill and saw, just below the crest, a small log cabin. Its aged owner was sitting in front of the door, smoking a corncob pipe, and when the traveler drew close enough he asked the old man patronizingly: "Lived here all your life?" "Nope," the old mountaineer replied patiently. "Not yet."
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For there is one thing we must never forget... the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
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Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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It should be easy for a man who's strong to say he's sorry or admit when he's wrong.
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Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
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The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.
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I think that a man should be caring.
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Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.
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Why kill good people just to get a bad man?
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Music is the best consolation for a despaired man.
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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.
