Man Quotes
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A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun salutes on the feast day of the local patron saint, or furniture being moved by the slime-buckets living upstairs, and go right on sleeping soundly. But the ringing of the telephone, the triumphal march of the cell phone, or the doorbell, no: Those are all sounds of summons in response to which the civilzed man (ha-ha!) has no choice but to surface from the depths of slumber and answer.
Andrea Camilleri
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There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever.
Lao Tzu
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Henry Ward Beecher
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But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it must be a public one, not the private affair which it now is, each man looking after his own children and teaching them privately whatever private curriculum he thinks they ought to study.
Aristotle
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I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.
Geronimo
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So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to his moral character. Virtue never dwelt long with filth; nor do I believe there ever was a person scrupulously: attentive to cleanliness, who was a consummate villain.
Benjamin Thompson
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You're not a man, you're a mushroom!
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
Diogenes
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If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.
Dalia Mogahed
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We go to the grave of a friend saying,
"A man is dead,"
but angels throng about him saying,
"A man is born."
Henry Ward Beecher