Man Quotes
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Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.
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Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.
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If someone is a lesbian, it's man's fault.
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Why kill good people just to get a bad man?
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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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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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Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
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A man on a hiking trip through the Blue Ridge Mountains came to the top of a hill and saw, just below the crest, a small log cabin. Its aged owner was sitting in front of the door, smoking a corncob pipe, and when the traveler drew close enough he asked the old man patronizingly: "Lived here all your life?" "Nope," the old mountaineer replied patiently. "Not yet."
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What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.
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Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?
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The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.
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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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The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.
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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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Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.
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Man, not men, is the most important consideration.
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A sentimentalist—is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.
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One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
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Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.
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A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
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So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.
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I always found it bizarre or strange that there was this unwritten set of rules around how a woman could interact with a man in terms of starting a conversation. While a man traditionally is always expected to make the first move, he risks rejection in a real way.
