Man Quotes
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...the wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.
Johnny Depp
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A man who throws himself on God ceases to fear man.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I must say, though, that a man who has staked his whole life on the card of a woman's love and who, when that card is trumped, falls to pieces and lets himself go to the dogs – a fellow like that is not a man, not a male. You say he's unhappy – you know best. But all the nonsense hasn't been taken out of him yet. I'm sure he really believes he's a smart fellow just because he reads that rag Galignani and saves a muzhik from a flogging once a month.
Ivan Turgenev -
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
William Faulkner -
Last tour I met a man with my face tattooed on his arm – which was wild.
Bright Light Bright Light -
Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion -
Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?
Thomas Carlyle
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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 -
The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.
Philip James Bailey -
The worse the man, the better the soldier.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
The world was sick, and the ills from which it was suffering were mainly due to the perversion of man, his inability to live at peace with himself. The microbe was no longer the main enemy; science was sufficiently advanced to be able to cope with it admirably. If it were not for such barriers as superstition, ignorance, religious intolerance, misery and poverty.
Brock Chisholm -
The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.
Charles Dickens -
There is no better way to die, than to die in the midst of a battle, fighting to the very end......like a man.
Enson Inoue
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I love not man the less, but Nature more.
Lord Byron -
But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.
David McCord -
The great question, whether man is of nature or above her.
George Perkins Marsh -
A man is nothing but breath and shadow.
Sophocles -
Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.
George Bernard Shaw -
The church knows that an educated man is an unbeliever.
Joseph Lewis
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A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
Thomas A. Edison -
The weapon where the man is sitting in is always superior against the other
Erich Hartmann -
The average man. The emergence of the concept.
Adolphe Quetelet