Man Quotes
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Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.
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It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.
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Oh, yes. In my future, a man will control all my possessions if I marry him, I shan’t be allowed to vote, and I won’t be given the opportunity to earn a living by any means except on my back - but by all means, the most dire threat I face is freckles.
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I never killed a man who didn't need it.
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
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What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown.
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Most women you know are very much interested in the man who is reputed to be deeply admired by other women.
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I'm a team player. But I will say that I've never been a 'yes man' in my life.
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The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.
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We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
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A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.
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If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct.
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God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.
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The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.
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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
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The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
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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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There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.
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Ah! si l'on o" tait les chime' res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?
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I personally can tell you that all my girlfriends - and many women I've spoken to - have this fear of being perceived as desperate or forward when they want to approach a man. It was always, 'He must text you first' - but why?
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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
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Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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A man must always have the possibility of a final choice between life and death. You can take him all the rest, but that never.
