Man Quotes
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You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.
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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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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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Hey bartender, hey man, look here. Give us one more, two more, three more glasses of beer.
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He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.
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For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.
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Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.
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You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
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The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.
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Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.
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Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.
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Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
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A man must look to the muddy pit wherefrom was taken the clay that moulds him.
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O SON OF MAN! I loved thy creation, hence I created thee. Wherefore, do thou love Me, that I may name thy name and fill thy soul with the spirit of life.
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If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.
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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 man or woman in this dispensation will ever enter into the celestial kingdom of God without the consent of Joseph Smith...every man and woman must have the certificate of Joseph Smith, junior, as a passport to their entrance into the mansion where God and Christ are...
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Vices of the time; vices of the man.
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A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
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Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.
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A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.
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No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.
