Man Quotes
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I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
Lord Byron
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Why do the sacraments exist? They are a means of healing. The sacraments are not a means of discipline, but a help for man on his life’s journey and in the weak moments of his life.
Carlo Maria Martini
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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Blaise Pascal
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The man who is not afraid of danger is not a hero, but a psychopath.
George Mikes
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Nothing can be taught to a man, only it's possibly to help him to discover it inside.
Galileo Galilei
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When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Every man should be khan in his own home.
Conn Iggulden
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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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It’s called basic human decency, and I deserve no credit for doing what every man should.
Courtney Milan
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Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man is a substance clad in shadows.
John Sterling
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Develop the strength of a man, but live as gently as a woman.
Lao Tzu
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Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.
Immanuel Kant
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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice...
George Bernard Shaw
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A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
Victor Hugo
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He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.
George Bernard Shaw
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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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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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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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The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried.
Bud Wilkinson
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For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.
Cameron Dokey