Man Quotes
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A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.
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The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.
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I'm not going to lie about it. I carry a satchel too. It's like a man purse. It's a whole thing.
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If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living.
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Tempt not a desperate man.
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I always dressed as a man when I was at school. I loved wearing a tie and a shirt, and I was always wearing suits. Annie Lennox was my hero. I was always playing men in high school.
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The worse the man, the better the soldier.
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A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
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We must relearn how to cry. A strong man cries; it is the weak man who holds back his tears.
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For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. For they only honour the valiant and admire the wise, while in addition they also love just men, and put entire trust and confidence in them.
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No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.
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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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Do not praise an undeserving man because of his riches.
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The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.
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If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.
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No man should be allowed to be President who does not understand hogs.
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Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.
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What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.
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Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honorable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? Not by a very long way, gentlemen; neither would any other man.
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It's to me one simple rule. Who imposes his will on the other man?
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A man is nothing but breath and shadow.
