Man Quotes
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The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
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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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I had always thought myself to be a man of moderate passions indistinguishable in that respect from most Englishmen born to our logical and mannered times.
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They say a man can change his personality—the basic essence of who or what he is—by five percent. Five percent: the total change any one of us is capable of.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.
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Man is a biped without feathers.
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Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.
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It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!
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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
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A man doesn't need brilliance or genius, all he needs is energy.
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When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.
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There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God.
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I liked the way he looked at me. I thought he was the kindest man in the world. Maybe everybody was kind. Maybe even my father. But Mr. Quintana was brave. He didn't care if the whole world knew he was kind. Dante was just like him.
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Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I'll show you his god.
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I'm really a pussycat and this [bad-boy] image has been totally overblown for 30 years. Sure, I used to rumble a little but I don't do that stuff anymore. I'm an old man now. When you reach your 50s, you realise that if you don't mellow, you won't last.
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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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...
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A certain wise man once said that God didn't play dice with the universe, but that man was wrong. Sometimes I think He must even try Russian roulette.
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A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.
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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.
