Man Quotes
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I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.
Plutarch -
Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.
Nelson Rodrigues
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A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.
Confucius -
We encourage failure among young men; we celebrate it... It's a badge of honour for a man. Yet attach those same words and experiences to a woman, and society writes her off.
Whitney Wolfe Herd -
In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.
Jane Austen -
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
Anthony Trollope -
The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.
Harpo Marx
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I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
Albert Einstein -
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
Euripides -
A man that is afraid is never a man.
Henry Ward Beecher -
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert Frost -
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.
Mahatma Gandhi -
That was the fight. I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.
Thomas Hearns
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What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
Socrates -
If a woman possessed the unfortunate combination of delicate skin, thin eyebrows, a curving spine and a ‘sharp tongue’, it would be almost impossible for a man to refrain from beating her.
Catharine Arnold -
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.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Cleveland Abbe -
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
Sophocles -
We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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 -
Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
Edgar Allan Poe -
. . . 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.
Anthony the Great -
I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.
Mahatma Gandhi