Man Quotes
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Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.
Anthony Trollope
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Mercy begins with a deep awareness of one’s own need for it. Whereas Alinsky first sees injustice in others, the man of mercy first sees sin within himself.
Charles J. Chaput
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The least glimmering or shade of acting, in man or woman, is a sure motive of envy in the rest; and, if their malice can't persuade the town's-people into a dislike of their performance, they'll cruelly endeavor to taint their characters.
Charlotte Charke
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The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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So you don’t love him. Why would you look for love with a man? How could a man ever understand you?
Catherynne M. Valente
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Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.
Muhammad Ali
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A man must always have the final choice in life and in death. Anything else can be taken from him, but never that.
Conn Iggulden
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... no man can be psychologically castrated without his co-operation!
Eda LeShan
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A man should always care about pleasing his wife.
Conn Iggulden
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A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.
Pythagoras
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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
George Bernard Shaw
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A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.
Mahatma Gandhi
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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
George Steiner
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Man is a creature of light and air, and I should therefore recommend little or no clothing when training.
George Hackenschmidt
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Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to his freedom. He will become himself only when he is totally demysticized. He will not be truly free until he has killed the last god.
Mircea Eliade
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Why is it honesty when a man speaks his mind and madness when a woman does?
Sharon Kay Penman
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
Nikolai Gogol
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To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind...
Jane Austen
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It’s called basic human decency, and I deserve no credit for doing what every man should.
Courtney Milan
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You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.
Pythagoras
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The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.
Philip James Bailey