Man Quotes
The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.
Neel Burton
God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.
Socrates
John Gotti was an incredible man and I know he would have been impressed by the hundreds of people who turned out to pay their respects.
Victoria Gotti
A significant minority of senior women I've interviewed say, 'Love the companionship, glad to live with him, but I spent my first marriage picking up after a man and I'm not going to do that anymore.
Stephanie Coontz
While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.
Henry Ward Beecher
A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
A man exercising no forethought will soon experience present sorrow.
Confucius
A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore, it is necessary for a prince, who wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it according to the necessity of the case.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert Frost
The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.
Friedrich Nietzsche
For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense of history.
Adrian Goldsworthy
There are two things without limit – the stupidity of Man and the mercy of God.
K. W. Jeter
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
As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.
Cleveland Abbe
A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.
Jane Austen
If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.
Henry Ward Beecher
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.
Mahatma Gandhi
