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.
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You are old Father William,' the young man said, 'and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head-do you think, at your age, it is right?
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Marriage is an indissoluble state of life wherein a man and a woman agree to give each other power over their bodies for the begetting, birth, and upbringing of offspring.
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The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.
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It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.
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“When a man is truly a man, it makes a woman comfortable to truly be a woman.”
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To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.
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Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.
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A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.
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One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.
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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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The greater the man the greater the courtesy.
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By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever.
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Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most people are hypnotized by organized religion from childhood.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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The finest mode of transport known to man.
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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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Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.
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I have been distracted from my duty as a father to some extent, but there is no greater exercise to a man’s talents than the upbringing of his son.
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I consider myself a very lucky man indeed.
