Man Quotes
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The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.
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Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.
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At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the rest. But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to its recreation, the inventors of the latter were always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former, because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility.
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Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.
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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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I absolutely loved Jerome Robbins. We were all so lucky to be in the same room with this man.
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Can a man of perception respect himself at all?
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He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.
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The best thing in the world is a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree.
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Nobody is sicker than the man who is sick on his day off.
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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Great is the man who can overcome the world, but greater still is the man who can overcome himself, for he will have the world spinning on the palm of his hand.
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I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.'
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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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The absurd man is he who never changes.
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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
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When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.
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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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Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.
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When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.
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The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.
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The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.
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Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.
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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.
