Man Quotes
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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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Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.
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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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The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free 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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You do not hunt a man who comes looking for you," Temujin reminded him softly.
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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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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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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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I want to find a man and have a family.
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Progress is the life-style of man.
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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 may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm
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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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For as Socrates says that a wise man is a citizen of the world, so I thought that a wise woman was equally at liberty to range through every station or degree of men, to fix her choice wherever she pleased.
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The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.
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No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.
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The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.
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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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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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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
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No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.
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The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
