Man Quotes
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A man prepared has half fought the battle.
Miguel de Cervantes
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The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
Plutarch
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Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to his freedom. He will become himself only when he is totally demysticized. He will not be truly free until he has killed the last god.
Mircea Eliade
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Of the time that is allotted to man here on the earth there is none to lose or waste. After suitable rest and relaxation there is not a day, hour or minute that we should spend in idleness, but every minute of every day of our lives we should strive to improve our minds and to increase the faith of the holy Gospel, in charity, patience, and good works, that we may grow in the knowledge of the truth as it is spoken and prophesied of and written about.
Brigham Young
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Thought is the most highly organized form of energy known to man.
Napoleon Hill
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Wait till you’ve washed and scrubbed for a man for ten or twelve years.
Christina Stead
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All there is, is fragments, because a man, even the loneliest of the species, is divided among several persons, animals, worlds. To know a man more than slightly it would be necessary to gather him together from all those quarters, each last scrap of him, and this done after he is safely dead.
Coleman Dowell
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What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?
Confucius
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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Henry Ward Beecher
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There is something about a man with a beard I cannot stand. No particular reason for it. Prejudice, I suppose. I feel the same way about cats.
Charles Willeford
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I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I am pro-life and I believe that marriage should only be between and man and a woman.
Sarah Palin
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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.
George Eliot
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The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried.
Bud Wilkinson
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A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.
Confucius
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Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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'You, Aubrey, are my most complete man. You're a brave, compassionate, kind and content, man. That's your secret—contentment. I'm 24 and I've never known it. I'm forever in pursuit and I don't even know what it is I'm chasing.
Colin Welland
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The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon.
George du Maurier
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Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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How long your hair has grown. You could strangle a man in it.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make...
George Bernard Shaw