Man Quotes
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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page.
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Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain't no game.
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The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.
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Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.
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If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea of Idi Amin living in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years of his life. That galls me to no end. I feel some sort of need for biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. My girlfriend says this great thing that’s become my philosophy as well. 'I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.'
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No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.
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The man from whom the joys of life have departed is living no more, but should be counted with the dead.
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I love not man the less, but Nature more.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.
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If man were never to fade away... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.
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Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house.
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A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.
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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
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If you men only knew how we love a man who can be just a woman to us sometimes!
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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.
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If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.
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No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
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The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.
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Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness).
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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.
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Man believes he has will: this is his illusion.
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One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
