Man Quotes
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
Honore de Balzac
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This book, "Speaking Freely," starts when I came to New York. And the first chapter is about a man who became a friend of mine, much to our mutual surprise, Malcolm X.
Nat Hentoff
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He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.
Jane Austen
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I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador...
Sigmund Freud
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Any man who had to carry a child would cave in around month two.
Johnny Depp
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The man had killed the thing he loved, And so he had to die.
Oscar Wilde
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Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
Kingsley Amis
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It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle
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Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.
Sophocles
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
Edgar Allan Poe
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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
Jules Verne
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But what is history, Don Ferrante would often say, without politics? A guide who walks on and on with no one following to learn the road, so that his every step is wasted; just as politics without history is like a man who walks along without a guide.
Alessandro Manzoni
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God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.
Socrates
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Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
Sophocles
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Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.
John Ruskin
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Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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Women do fool around. But the reason they don't get caught is that when a woman mess with a man he lives cross town, out of town. Fellas we mess with next door neighbor, co-worker, wondering why she found out.
Bruce Bruce
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Every white liberal straight man needs to take action and work at unifying all peoples of our sides and stop making women and people of color and the LGBT community fight it out themselves and just pat them on the back. We have to take active roles in supporting them, defending them, and hiring them.
Brett Gelman
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Man is incomprehensible without Nature and Nature is incomprehensible apart from man. For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much in the human eye as in its own fragile petals and in the splendor of the heavens as much in the imagination that kindles at the touch of their glory as in the shining of countless worlds.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
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What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
Confucius
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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.
Gabe Kapler
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Man is a biped without feathers.
Plato
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Mind the dead man, my dear.
Rachel Caine
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Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, he revived his fatherland and created a new people and a new power in the middle of Arabia.
Napoleon Bonaparte