Man Quotes
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A man is best known, understood, measured, even valued, not by his settled conclusions, but by the dilemmas he keeps. They are the best markers of fleeting truth on the perverse road of time.
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It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
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Until ... the promiscuous woman is recognized, not only in law but in public opinion, as being neither better nor worse than the promiscuous man, equality has not been won in the moral sphere.
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You can't hunt a man if he's searching for you
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Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.
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Is an unwieldy ill; a man with a loose Tongue is indeed a child with a knife.
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No man has ever ruled other men for their own good.
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One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
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It's to me one simple rule. Who imposes his will on the other man?
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A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.
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You can't fix a bad man like a bad staircase.
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If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea of Idi Amin living in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years of his life. That galls me to no end. I feel some sort of need for biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. My girlfriend says this great thing that’s become my philosophy as well. 'I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.'
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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.
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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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Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
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The perfume of the flowers and of the bay tree are wafted on high, like incense. The birds sing sweet songs of praise to their Creator. In the tops of the trees, the soughing of the wind is like the hushed prayers of the multitude in some vast cathedral. Here the heart of man becomes impressionable.
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[On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart; but a weak man usually has not.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering.
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There are millions of animal species, but man is the only animal capable of destroying them all.
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Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
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The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.
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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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A real man would never cry in public unless he was watching a movie in which a heroic dog died to save its master. Or if Heidi klum unbuttoned her blouse. Or he accidently dropped a full case of beer.
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It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.
