Man Quotes
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It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.
John Ruskin -
I remain a simple man who has more questions than answers. Please join me as I seek to turn that tide.
Bill Duke
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What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put out of order.
James Boswell -
Are you woman enough to be my man?
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
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.
Nikephoros of Chios -
If the man who observes the myriad stars, and considers that they and their innumerable satellites move in their serene dignity through the heavens, each swinging clear of the other's orbit-if, I say, the man who sees this cannot realise the Creator's attributes without the help of the book of Job, then his view of things is beyond my understanding.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
A man who is a man goes on until he can go no further—and then goes twice as far.
Steve Sheinkin -
This man of his, yes, this man. Now Sam accepts his own desire. “I’m a gayrod,” he shouts marching through crowded plazas. “I’m in love with a man, and I want men. That’s what I want. I want man, man, man!
Barry Webster
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A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.
Hamilton Wright Mabie -
If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without killing her, causes his love to cease. And if any one loves me for my judgment or my memory, does he really love me? No; for I can lose these qualities without ceasing to be.
Blaise Pascal -
Somewhere Chesterton writes--I think it is Chesterton--that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn’t deliver him to
Alec Wilkinson -
The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.
Robert Frost -
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
You can't surprise a man with a dog.
Cindy Chupack
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There is something about a man with a beard I cannot stand. No particular reason for it. Prejudice, I suppose. I feel the same way about cats.
Charles Willeford -
It was man who first made men believe in gods.
Critias -
A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
Confucius -
An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.
George Saville -
When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.
Michelangelo Antonioni -
For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.
Plato
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You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!
George Bernard Shaw -
The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.
Armond White -
Any man who holds a woman back is not a man a woman can afford to be with.
Marianne Williamson -
I like a man willing to pay the price of his pleasures.
Alice Borchardt