Man Quotes
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A man of the utmost insignificance.
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The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.
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The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
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A man doesn't need brilliance or genius, all he needs is energy.
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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
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What man lacks most is will, constancy of will. Man works to earn his living, and when he finishes his day … He wants to sleep. He is lazy where public things are concerned. We let catastrophes come, we let them ripen. They don’t come because men want them to; they come because men want to sleep. ‘We can’t do anything about it. If it must happen, better not to know about it. Humanity has always been severely threatened. The threats are not diminishing. But one must sleep, after all. Sleep.
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The American people need to know where this man stands on the issue of privacy.
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Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life.
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A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living....
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A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.
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No man can judge before the end.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
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You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
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The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.
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There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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That which impels man to do the right thing is God.
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I don't think a man who is fifteen years younger than me should tell me he is proud of me unless he is my sober coach or my time-travel dad.
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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.
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You do not hunt a man who comes looking for you," Temujin reminded him softly.
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If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.
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A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.
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The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.
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Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in a boat drinking beer every weekend.
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The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.
