Man Quotes
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Man, Twin Peaks ruined me for television. I mean, how can you top a show like that.
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There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.
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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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Examinations, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
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If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
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I wanted to create something that was quite edgy and belonged to me. It wasn't about my sexual orientation, because I'm heterosexual. It was saying that appearance is just temporary, and I want to be as strong as a man.
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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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There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man.
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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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A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
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Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.
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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
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The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.
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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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It is right to give every man his due.
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The highest kind of man is the one who does before talking and practices what he professes.
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I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man.
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What a weak, credulous, incredulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the mind of man. How full of inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdities it is. I declare that taking the average of many minds that have recently come before me ... I should prefer the obedience, affections and instinct of a dog before it.
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The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.
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It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at a moment when the man would of course sooner be glad to fall through the earth than to express anything with a word or a look.
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I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.
