Man Quotes
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I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may not be the man I could be; I may not be the man I truly can be; but praise God, I'm not the man I once was.
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What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.
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I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.
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Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.
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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
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I had always thought myself to be a man of moderate passions indistinguishable in that respect from most Englishmen born to our logical and mannered times.
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...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.
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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
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When a bull is being lead to the slaughter, it still hopes to break loose and trample its butchers. Other bulls have not been able to pass on the knowledge that this never happens and that from the slaughterhouse there is no way back to the herd. But in human society there is a continuous exchange of experience. I have never heard of a man who broke away and fled while being led to his execution. It is even thought to be a special form of courage if a man about to be executed refuses to be blindfolded and dies with his eyes open. But I would rather have the bull with his blind rage, the stubborn beast who doesn't weigh his chances of survival with the prudent dull-wittedness of man, and doesn't know the despicable feeling of despair.
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A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.
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I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.
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The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.
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When a young man becomes a man it is a miracle. Indeed, I have become a man, I got married, I became a father. So I said yes to Miracle.
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To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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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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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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Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.
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That man is blest Who does his best And leaves the rest, Then - do not worry.
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God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.
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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
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We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.
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I found him an impressive man, and a very difficult man.
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The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.
