Man Quotes
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Is he a good man?" "Define 'good'.
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Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.
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The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.
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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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The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.
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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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We have come to know Man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.
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A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
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Alan Butcher is a Surrey man through and through.
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The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.
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A man given to vice is always an idealist.
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You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.
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God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.
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Can a man of perception respect himself at all?
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It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!
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The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite.
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Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
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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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He was his own man. Because he was his own man, he was able to accomplish what he was able to accomplish in the civil rights movement.
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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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The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.
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To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.
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Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
