Man Quotes
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison
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Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Marilyn Monroe
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
Lord Byron
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A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!
George Bernard Shaw
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Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.
Sophocles
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When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.
Oswald Chambers
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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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Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.
Napoleon Hill
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Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.
Aelred of Rievaulx
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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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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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Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.
Francis Bacon
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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 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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Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.
Dante Alighieri
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Gaylord (Perry) is a very honorable man. He only calls for the spitter when he needs it.
Gabe Paul
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In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide.
Silvio Berlusconi
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Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke.
J. P. Morgan
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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.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.
Albert Einstein
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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 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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Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.
Honore de Balzac