Man Quotes
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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.
Celia Fremlin
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Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest.
Pythagoras
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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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Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games.
Scott Adams
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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
Cesare Pavese
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I never knew any man cured of inattention.
Jonathan Swift
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In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a passion of conferring uniqueness on things or persons. A man who knows nothing of symbols is one of Dante's sluggards. This is why art mirrors itself in primitive rites or strong passions, seeking for symbols, revolving round the primitive taste for savagery, for what is irrational (blood and sex).
Cesare Pavese
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When I first saw Jo, I said boom, that was it, because I'm a one-woman man.
Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
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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.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I would just as soon remain jamona than shed that many tears over a man.
Esmeralda Santiago
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake
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A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.
John Milton
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A normal man is one who has not only actualized his potentialities but has freed himself from his subjectivity.
Alfred Richard Orage
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What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
Socrates
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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
George Bernard Shaw
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You would fancy any man who gave you baklava," I tease. "You think I am some kind of sharmuta for sweets?
Camilla Gibb
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No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
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Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.
Baruch Spinoza
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Fear that man who fears not God.
Abdelkader El Djezairi
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If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.
James Boswell
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If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.
Victor Hugo
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It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.
William Shakespeare