Man Quotes
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Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!
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I think like a man but have the emotions of a woman, and that's really dangerous.
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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
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The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.
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Last tour I met a man with my face tattooed on his arm – which was wild.
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In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.
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. . . you should know that there is present with you the angel whom God has appointed for each man. . . This angel, who is sleepless and cannot be deceived, is always present with you; he sees all things and is not hindered by darkness. You should know, too, that with him is God.
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From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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Prospecting - Find the man with the problem.
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We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.
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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.
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In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.
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Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.
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Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.
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The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.
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But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.
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A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in the community wants to acquire a glorious past just as he acquires antique furniture. By that past he is reassured of his present importance; in it he finds strength to face the dangers that lie in front of him.
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...for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
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To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.
