Man Quotes
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Science produces an incomparably lyrical state in this man.
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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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By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!
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Man lives measuring, and he’s the measure of nothing. Not even of himself.
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Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
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The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
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I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.
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The man who loves his job never works a day in his life.
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No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
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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.
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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
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Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.
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A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God's truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what pleased him alone? Who would plough the fields and reap the harvest, if every man had the right to say, 'I don't want to do that.' In this world there is a place for every man, but every man must know his place.
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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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Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
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He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.
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Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic.
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No man is free who cannot control himself.
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If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.
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Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion.
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No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.
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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
