Man Quotes
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It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man.
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A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
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If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world?
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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.
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This savagery of materialism, the scent of blood rousing ferocious instincts, obtrudes the age of the brute into the age of man. Democratic freedom has not yet cuts its wisdom teeth...
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It takes a smart man to play dumb.
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No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.
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Two grand slams in a week - man, that's seven or eight ribbies right there.
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Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
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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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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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The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
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Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life by keeping eyes, mind and heart open to nature, men, books, experience - and what he gathers serves him at unexpected moments in unforeseen ways.
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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
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Most women you know are very much interested in the man who is reputed to be deeply admired by other women.
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I have yet to meet a man who has seen my true stars.
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As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.
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Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
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A man. A dead man. A dead man with no arms.
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Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.
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Why is it honesty when a man speaks his mind and madness when a woman does?
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Before then when a party won, its workers got everything in sight. That was somethin’ to make a man patriotic.
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Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life.
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The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.
