Man Quotes
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When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
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The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.
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I must say, though, that a man who has staked his whole life on the card of a woman's love and who, when that card is trumped, falls to pieces and lets himself go to the dogs – a fellow like that is not a man, not a male. You say he's unhappy – you know best. But all the nonsense hasn't been taken out of him yet. I'm sure he really believes he's a smart fellow just because he reads that rag Galignani and saves a muzhik from a flogging once a month.
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The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.
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A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.
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Since puberty, I've always known there was a possibility of me being with a man. It wasn't anything I felt the need to explore until the time came to explore it.
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There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.
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Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.
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A rogue can generally express himself better than an honest man.
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The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.
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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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It takes a smart man to play dumb.
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And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.
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The average man. The emergence of the concept.
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There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.
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You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?
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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.
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Then a man sees that the Kingdom of Heaven is truly within us; and seeing it now in himself, he strives with pure prayer to keep it and strengthen it there.
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Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property, some things he will place at the disposal of his friends, while of others he shares the use of them.
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No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.
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It is man that makes truth great, and not truth that makes man great.
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If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.
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I voted for Poroshenko. But I was wrong. Could I imagine that his ‘living in a new way’ would mean ‘surviving?’ That’s why I’m here. With my team. I’m not a politician, I’m just a man. A regular guy who came here to break the system.
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?
