Man Quotes
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You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.
Rudyard Kipling
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Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
Victor Hugo
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The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.
Ernest Hemingway
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The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment.
Sarah Hall
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Man is a bad animal.
Brion Gysin
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There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.
Judith Anderson
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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.
Confucius
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The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.
Armond White
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A man is best known, understood, measured, even valued, not by his settled conclusions, but by the dilemmas he keeps. They are the best markers of fleeting truth on the perverse road of time.
George Zebrowski
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Every unjust man is unjust against his will.
Plato
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The man of the past.
Valery Giscard d'Estaing
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It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake
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It harms a man more to wound his heart than to hurt his body.
Kenko Yoshida
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
Cesare Pavese
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering.
Cesare Pavese
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The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.
Plato
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The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
Euripides
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake; and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue.
Thomas Aquinas
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A man must always have the final choice in life and in death. Anything else can be taken from him, but never that.
Conn Iggulden