Man Quotes
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Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to his freedom. He will become himself only when he is totally demysticized. He will not be truly free until he has killed the last god.
Mircea Eliade -
When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Baseball is a man maker.
A. G. Spalding -
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
Abraham Lincoln -
Truly God was good, to make man so blind.
Colleen McCullough -
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.
Confucius
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A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
The thing about Matt Cameron is he has made us 1000 times a better band than we've ever been. He's such a freight train on drums and such a cool individual as a man that it makes us better as a band, and we are now complete with him.
Mike McCready Pearl Jam -
Man, not men, is the most important consideration.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
Jonathan Swift -
The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability.
Confucius -
Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.
Sophocles
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To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.
Aristotle -
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
Thomas Hobbes -
Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang'd like a dog.
Anne Bonny -
For a man to become a poet, he must be in love, or miserable.
Lord Byron -
Your people are not unwise, after all: love of the perfect Deity may prevent us from loving imperfect man! But God's will is to restore the lost; and that can't be done without loving them.
K. J. Bishop
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The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn — the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.
Tim Page -
Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.
Plato