Man Quotes
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Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.
Homer
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
Anthony Trollope
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A man exercising no forethought will soon experience present sorrow.
Confucius
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Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.
Jane Austen
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It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Henry Ward Beecher
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So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency.
Aristotle
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Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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An angry man can only get so far until he reconciles the way he thinks.
Don Henley The Eagles
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A man has a right to want to live.
Dalia Sofer
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It is right to give every man his due.
Plato
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This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.
Stephen R. Donaldson
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Can a man of perception respect himself at all?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Man lives measuring, and he’s the measure of nothing. Not even of himself.
Antonio Porchia
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The man is United - cut him and he bleeds red.
Alan Brazil
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The right words are always there, if a man's sharp enough to see them.
Conn Iggulden
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Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honorable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? Not by a very long way, gentlemen; neither would any other man.
Socrates
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Man, Twin Peaks ruined me for television. I mean, how can you top a show like that.
Michael Horse
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A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
Abraham Lincoln