Man Quotes
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Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Henry Ward Beecher
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.
Rudyard Kipling
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This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
Euripides
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...self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.
Nick Hornby
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I consider myself a very lucky man indeed.
Eric Stoltz
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Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.
Neel Burton
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The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.
Thomas A. Edison
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Man can’t live by truth alone, you know, and children even less so.
Celia Fremlin
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It takes a smart man to play dumb.
Mr. T
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Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Thought is the most highly organized form of energy known to man.
Napoleon Hill
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No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Of the time that is allotted to man here on the earth there is none to lose or waste. After suitable rest and relaxation there is not a day, hour or minute that we should spend in idleness, but every minute of every day of our lives we should strive to improve our minds and to increase the faith of the holy Gospel, in charity, patience, and good works, that we may grow in the knowledge of the truth as it is spoken and prophesied of and written about.
Brigham Young
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My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
George Bernard Shaw
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Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I'm the man that brought you the mullet.
Bono U2
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Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
Henry Ward Beecher
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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.
Conn Iggulden
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A man is nothing but breath and shadow.
Sophocles
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The singular man is singular in comparison to other men, but a companion of Heaven. So it is said, the petty man of Heaven is a gentleman among men; the gentleman among men is the petty man of Heaven.
Burton Watson
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It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby... it inspires him.
Ina May Gaskin