Man Quotes
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Man who stands on toilet, gets high on pot!
Katharine Hepburn
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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.
Aristotle
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The Angel's bread is made the Bread of man today.
Thomas Aquinas
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A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
Francis Bacon
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
Abraham Lincoln
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Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.
Mahatma Gandhi
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No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.
Oswald Chambers
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
Immanuel Kant
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An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.
Bergen Evans
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Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.
Ralph Ransom
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A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
George Bernard Shaw
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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.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only I thought I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.
Burton Rascoe
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The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.
George Bernard Shaw
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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.
B. R. Hayden
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I want to find a man and have a family.
Bellamy Young
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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.
Cesare Pavese
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Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.
John Milton
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I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
Abraham Lincoln
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I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere. I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible. My feelings in every respect forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
Jane Austen
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess 'em.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.
Bernard Rudofsky
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Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.
Bill Clinton