Man Quotes
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Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present.
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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.
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I was like, man, I love this. This is what I want to do for the rest of my life.
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Baseball is a man maker.
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Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
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The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.
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How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.
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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.
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The atmosphere of Venus consists of ammonia, sulfur, and nitric oxide. Man must have lived there once.
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A significant minority of senior women I've interviewed say, 'Love the companionship, glad to live with him, but I spent my first marriage picking up after a man and I'm not going to do that anymore.
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The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.
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I decline to accept the end of man.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
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A population may be too crowded, though all be amply supplied with food and raiment. It is not good for a man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species.
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A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.
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Man begets, but land does not beget.
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Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.
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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.
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I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.
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Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.
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What man is, only his history tells.
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What a glorious spectacle is that of the labor of man upon the earth! It includes everything in it that is glorious. Look around and tell me what you see, that is worth seeing, that is not the work of your hands and the hands of your fellows;--the multitudes of all ages.
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I was a man by middle school.
