Man Quotes
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What a weak, credulous, incredulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the mind of man. How full of inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdities it is. I declare that taking the average of many minds that have recently come before me ... I should prefer the obedience, affections and instinct of a dog before it.
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I feel as a woman of color, I just don't want my art to be owned by a white man.
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If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.
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Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.
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He had a certain air of being a handsome man-which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.
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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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Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.
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When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well-financed disinformation campaign to be aimed my way.
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Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
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We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.
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Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.
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When a man says he likes a woman in a skirt, I tell him to try one.
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The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.
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Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.
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A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm
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I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.
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I am a man of constant sorrow. I've seen trouble all my days.
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The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.
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A man must rise by his own efforts and walk by faith.
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Nothing can stand in the way of the man who focuses his entire self on a problem.
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Great is the man who can overcome the world, but greater still is the man who can overcome himself, for he will have the world spinning on the palm of his hand.
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.
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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.
