Man Quotes
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One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.
William Faulkner
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Truly God was good, to make man so blind.
Colleen McCullough
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Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a good thing when man overstrains his reason and tries to reduce to rational order matters that are susceptible of rational treatment. Then there arise ideals such as those of the Americans or of the Bolsheviks. Both are extraordinarily rational, and both lead to a frightful oppression and impoverishment of life, because they simplify it so crudely. The likeness of man, once a high ideal, is in process of becoming a machine-made article. It is for madmen like us, perhaps, to ennoble it again.
Hermann Hesse
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A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.
John Milton
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I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
Epictetus
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Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels.
Saul Bellow
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I didn't want to send a man to hell on an empty stomach.
Clay Allison
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Man believes and lives.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
Confucius
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This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.
Socrates
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I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
Ernest Hemingway
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When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well-financed disinformation campaign to be aimed my way.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.
Stephen R. Donaldson
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No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Never trust a man with short legs. His brains are too near his bottom.
Noel Coward
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Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.
Aristotle
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The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability.
Confucius
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A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.
Baruch Spinoza
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Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
Robert Frost
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The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.
Baruch Spinoza
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Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.
James Boswell
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I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.
Arthur Conan Doyle