Man Quotes
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Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.
Euripides -
Every man knows the smell of his own fart.
Confucius
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To cut a man with a single blow is easy. To avoid being cut by a man is difficult.
Yagyu Munenori -
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.
Socrates -
Alan Butcher is a Surrey man through and through.
Alec Stewart -
This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.
Socrates -
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
John Lennon The Beatles
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I never knew any man cured of inattention.
Jonathan Swift -
An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.
Hermann Hesse -
To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.
Heraclitus -
A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.
John Milton -
Man is a god to his fellow-man, if he know his duty.
Caecilius Statius -
I think like a man but have the emotions of a woman, and that's really dangerous.
Suzi Quatro
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A man given to vice is always an idealist.
Georges Bernanos -
I'm the man that brought you the mullet.
Bono U2 -
Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.
George Bernard Shaw -
The appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
Herodotus -
In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.
Homer -
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
Henry Ward Beecher -
When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.
Pythagoras