Man Quotes
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The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment.
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What one man can invent, another can discover.
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The man is United - cut him and he bleeds red.
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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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Man believes and lives.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
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Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.
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A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.
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A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.
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A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
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Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.
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I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.
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He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.
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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
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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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Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.
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If you are a woman living, you've been done wrong by a man.
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The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
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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.
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.
