Man Quotes
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I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.
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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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It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.
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Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
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Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.
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The man had killed the thing he loved, And so he had to die.
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There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.
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Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.
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The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.
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Don’t worry about being normal. It’s an awful thing to aspire to.
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Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I'll show you his god.
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He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.
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Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.
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If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.
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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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Every man is his own greatest dupe.
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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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People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.
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Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.
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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.
