Man Quotes
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We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.
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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
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How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!
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When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.
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A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
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With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
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Man lives measuring, and he’s the measure of nothing. Not even of himself.
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Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.
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Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang'd like a dog.
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Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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If a man feared defeat, he would never give battle... Every victory is inevitably succeeded by defeat. It is the nature of our lives. A man might fight a thousand battles and emerge triumphant from every one; still, he will suffer defeat in the end, for we die and we are forgotten. If we cannot face defeat, we must live always, throughout our lives, in fear. For it awaits us all.
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A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living....
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“Better to be a man and respected like a king, than to be a king respected by no man”
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Providence has so ordained it, that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man – his own mother, and the mother of his children. Besides these two legitimate kinds of love, there is nothing between the two creatures except vain excitement, painful and vain delusion.
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Each man has his own batch of poems.
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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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The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!
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The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.
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Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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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.
