Man Quotes
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“Glazed brick, white mortar, and blue roof-tiles do not make a house beautiful; carved rosewood, gold cloth, and clear green jade do not furnish a house with grace; a man of cultivated mind makes a house of mud and wattle beautiful; a woman, even with a pock-marked face; if refined of heart, fills a house with grace. -House of Exile”
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One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.
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Marriage is an indissoluble state of life wherein a man and a woman agree to give each other power over their bodies for the begetting, birth, and upbringing of offspring.
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Do not praise an undeserving man because of his riches.
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A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.
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Great is the man who can overcome the world, but greater still is the man who can overcome himself, for he will have the world spinning on the palm of his hand.
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What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.
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We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.
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Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.
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Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.
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There's only so far you can push a man.
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“He was the type of man women said they hated, they absolutely hated, they absolutely and categorically hated, and then they went to bed with him. I was the type of man women said they hated, and then they went home.”
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Man was not made for himself alone.
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The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.
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The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.
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Never upstage a man. Don't top his joke, even if you have to bite your tongue to keep from doing it. Never launch loudly into your own opinions on a subject - whether it's petunias or politics. Instead, draw out his ideas to which you can gracefully add your footnotes from time to time.
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Any man who doesn't partake in cigar smoking is nothing more than a weak-willed, meandering oaf, and I would never put my lips to those of any creature, man or beast, whose lips were not fresh awash in the currents of cigar smoke.'
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No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
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When I first saw Jo, I said boom, that was it, because I'm a one-woman man.
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The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely.
