Man Quotes
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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.
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Every man has it's price, but it's almost never the gold
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Man believes and lives.
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It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at a moment when the man would of course sooner be glad to fall through the earth than to express anything with a word or a look.
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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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I'm incredibly fortunate to have met the intelligent, generous, risk-taking, stimulating man to whom I am married. He's really amazing.
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Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
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A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
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Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!
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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.
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Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also are the organs required to effect them. ... Animals, however, that not only live but perceive, present a great multiformity of pacts, and this diversity is greater in some animals than in others, being most varied in those to whose share has fallen not mere life but life of high degree. Now such an animal is man.
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You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?
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One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
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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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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby...
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For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.
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This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
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No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.
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For a grown man with a fully developed personality, try as you might, it's hard to start acting like a different person.
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Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.
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An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.
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I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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The superior man is never in anyone's way.
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A man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you.
