Man Quotes
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
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Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain't no game.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat...nor make love for eight hours...
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Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life.
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Man begets, but land does not beget.
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Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.
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A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
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Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.
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When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be.
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There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.
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The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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I feel like I'm neither a girl nor a boy. I don't feel like a man.
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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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Women do fool around. But the reason they don't get caught is that when a woman mess with a man he lives cross town, out of town. Fellas we mess with next door neighbor, co-worker, wondering why she found out.
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What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.
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Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
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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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As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.
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God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
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But in the great hour Heaven sent the German people a great man, Herr von Cuno.
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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.
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The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried.
