Man Quotes
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A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.
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For the weariest road that man may wend Is forth fromn the home of his father.
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Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.
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Like the rich man, they can have so many things right for so long and sometimes at the end they can lose it all because of one wrong decision.
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That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.
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It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.
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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.
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A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
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Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.
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The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.
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The atmosphere of Venus consists of ammonia, sulfur, and nitric oxide. Man must have lived there once.
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I decline to accept the end of man.
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Somewhere Chesterton writes--I think it is Chesterton--that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn’t deliver him to
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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If one's man's trash is another man's treasure, then one industry's potential failure is another's opportunity.
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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
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Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
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It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea
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“He was the type of man women said they hated, they absolutely hated, they absolutely and categorically hated, and then they went to bed with him. I was the type of man women said they hated, and then they went home.”
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It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.
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A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.
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A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.
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No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.
