Man Quotes
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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.
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...self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.
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Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.
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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.
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The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.
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When a man may whisper in a close ear, and that whisper be repeated far away and many moons later, then he has power. When a many may speak against another, and that other be brought to ruin and rue by nothing more than those words, then he has power. And if a man can act without the appearance of action, and bring about great change without the appearance of desiring it, then he has power.
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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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No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].
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Is he a good man?" "Define 'good'.
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Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself.
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To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.
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If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?
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The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.
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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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Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.
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I know also another man who married a widow with several children; and when one of the girls had grown into her teens he insisted on marrying her also, having first by some means won her affections. The mother, however, was much opposed to this marriage, and finally gave up her husband entirely to her daughter; and to this very day the daughter bears children to her stepfather, living as wife in the same house with her mother!
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Progress is the life-style of man.
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A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
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A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.
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Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.
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An exchange occurs between man and woman. Love and thought complete each other in the human pair, and something like an exchange of souls takes place, according to the divine plan.
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Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for watch; for a servant is, from the point of view of his craft, categorized as one of its tools. So any piece of property can be regarded as a tool enabling a man to live, and his property is an assemblage of such tools; a slave is a sort of living piece of property; and like any other servant is a tool in charge of other tools.
