Man Quotes
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...for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
Jane Austen
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Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.
Walter Chrysler
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
Leon Trotsky
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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
George Bernard Shaw
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What man is, only his history tells.
Wilhelm Dilthey
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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.
George Bernard Shaw
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When a rules man gives you a ruling, that’s it. Amen.
Gary Player
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.
Decimius Magnus Ausonius
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The war also made its way into love songs, including such kitsch classics as “Your Lips Are No Man’s Land but Mine” and “If He Can Fight Like He Can Love, Good Night Germany!"
Ben Yagoda
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When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The body, the house of the spirit, is under the power of pleasure and pain,” explains a god. “And if a man is ruled by his body then this man can never be free.
Charles Seife
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A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
Abraham Lincoln
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That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.
Henry Ward Beecher
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And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him? She would see. It was more daring than became a man to threaten her.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make. He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.
Ida Tarbell
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A man must rise by his own efforts and walk by faith.
Marvin J. Ashton
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Hey bartender, hey man, look here. Give us one more, two more, three more glasses of beer.
Koko Taylor
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If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.
Dalia Mogahed
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The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of human nor the rule of divine will exist as an independent cause of natural events.
Albert Einstein
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A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.
Harvey Cushing
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One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[On his father] He was a man of another age, really, holding a set of values that differed in essence from those that most men hold today. The son of a pioneer settler, he grew up believing along with most of the men of his world that a man’s physical strength was his measure.
R. M. Williams