Man Quotes
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
Jonathan Swift -
The minute a man stops supplicating God for His Spirit and direction, just so soon he starts out to become a stranger to Him and His works. When men stop praying for God's Spirit, they place confidence in their own unaided reason, and they gradually lose the Spirit of God.
Heber J. Grant
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Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.
Homer -
A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.
Immanuel Kant -
Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain't no game.
Burt Shotton -
God never made anything else so beautiful as man.
Henry Ward Beecher -
It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not found, God cannot dwell. If, then, we possess charity, we possess God, for "God is Charity".
Albertus Magnus -
It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
Victor Hugo
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.
Henrik Ibsen -
The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
Oscar Wilde -
Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.
Muhammad Ali -
We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Do not praise an undeserving man because of his riches.
Bias of Priene -
I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.
Jane Austen
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Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.
Antonio Machado -
It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
George Bernard Shaw -
A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.
Sophocles -
Now my playmates never failed to wink and smile mockingly at me when one of them called 'Man flies!' for at the word I would always lift my finger very high, as a sign of absolute conviction; and I refused with energy to pay the forfeit. The more they laughed at me, the happier I was, hoping that some day the laugh would be on my side.
Alberto Santos-Dumont -
I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
Jane Austen -
A man’s character, she reflected with surprise, consists a good deal more of the way people feel and behave towards him than of the way he himself feels and behaves.
Celia Fremlin
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Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.
George Perkins Marsh -
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Socrates