Man Quotes
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Man can’t live by truth alone, you know, and children even less so.
Celia Fremlin
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I thought of my mother. Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.
Scott Spencer
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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
Thomas Carlyle
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A man who runs away from death will run into death.
Chenjerai Hove
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God is light, we are told, and Hell is outer darkness. But look at a desert mountain stripped bare by the sun, and you learn only geography. Watch darkness claim it, and for a moment you may grasp why God had to create Satan - or man to create both.
Colin Fletcher
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If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct.
Confucius
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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!
James Cecil Dickens
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The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.
Thomas à Kempis
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You're not a man until your father says you're a man.
Burt Reynolds
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A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.
Confucius
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I shall show that the place does not honor the man, but the man the place.
Agesilaus II
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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.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
Nikolai Gogol
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He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.
Confucius
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Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.
Pythagoras
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The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
Ernest Hemingway
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Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.
Walter Chrysler
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Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
Alan Cumming
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The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.
Aristotle
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It's no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain.
Lester Cole
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New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.
Sean Connery