Man Quotes
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Nobody says 'a working man,' but they say, 'a working woman.' And there is still a strange connotation to that.
Ivanka Trump
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Baseball is a man maker.
A. G. Spalding
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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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If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Maryland is such a special place, man... You miss that warm, friendly love. It ain't like that everywhere else in the world.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.
Jane Austen
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Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all his facilities gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.
Amy Vanderbilt
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Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some o' them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.
Charles Dickens
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Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.
Elizabeth Wein
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That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
Antoine Rivarol
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Father was a good driver and enjoyed driving, but the sight of a female in charge of a vehicle was sometimes too much for him. If a car came to close or made the smallest mistake with the rules of the road he shouted, "blasted woman driver", to which my mother was often able to say, with truth, "Funny thing, she's dressed as a man."
Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
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I'd like to be with an interesting man who is understanding about having a busy partner.
Tracy Reese
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Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.
Homer
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
Erica Jong
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A man. A dead man. A dead man with no arms.
David Wellington
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The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.
Charles Dickens
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[On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart; but a weak man usually has not.
Catherine the Great
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I have yet to meet a man who has seen my true stars.
Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
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In a word, what characterizes the spiritist revelation is that while divine in its origin and of the initiative of the Spirits, its elaboration is fruit of man’s work.
Allan Kardec
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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.
Immanuel Kant
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For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something impersonally valuable to the community in which she lived, but it was not that power, and could not be regarded as an end in itself. Nor, even, were children ends in themselves; it was useless to go on producing human beings merely in order that they, in their sequence, might produce others, and never turn from this business of continuous procreation to the accomplishment of some definite and lasting piece of work.
Vera Brittain
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A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.
Sophocles