Man Quotes
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The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.
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If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.
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The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.
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New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.
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Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
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That which impels man to do the right thing is God.
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I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.
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Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.
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Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.
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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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The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.
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There's not a man in here who doesn't realize Johnny Damon makes us go. He's very important to us.
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You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.
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A man is a phoenix, who must be reborn from his own ashes, for there is no other like him in the universe. If the wind stirs the ashes into a clumsy parody, then the phoenix is dead forever. Nothing we know of can bring you back.
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I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only I thought I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.
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The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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I'm in need of a man apron. A very manly apron.
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If a man ever lets you know that he sees marriage as a trap, and women as nothing but scheming connivers, you are by no means to marry him. Any man that sees your entire sex in so harsh a light has nothing to offer you.
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He had a certain air of being a handsome man-which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.
