Man Quotes
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Woful was the proof that man, if unrestrained, if left to his own devices, is not merely incapable of recovering his innocence, but will rush madly down the steep of sensuousness and impious self-will until he finds himself engulphed in the abyss of perdition. The trial of freedom had failed: the second of the ages was ended.
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“Better to be a man and respected like a king, than to be a king respected by no man”
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.
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If you are a woman living, you've been done wrong by a man.
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When a rules man gives you a ruling, that’s it. Amen.
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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
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What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?
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Man is too quick at forming conclusions.
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The little man is still a man.
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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.
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The man who follows is forever at your back, something to consider Champion.
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A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.
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Every man may think his own cause just till it be heard and judged.
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There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
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When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.
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Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state – admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological – in which it does not do this. At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that "I" and "you" are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Tempt not a desperate man.
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A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
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My dad was a produce man. He worked in grocery stores for 35 years. My mom just babysat kids and raised us. I have four sisters and one brother. I'm the baby.
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You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
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Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.
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A man can be a hero in any profession.
