Man Quotes
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Love, like the opening of the heavens to the Saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest man, the possibilities of the human race. He has faith, hope, and charity for another being, perhaps but a creation of his imagination: still it is a great advance for a man to be profoundly loving even in his imaginations.
Philip James Bailey -
Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.
Rumi -
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.
Euripides -
You can't expect a man like me to be loyal to just one woman.
Scott Glenn -
What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
Victor Hugo
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
Thomas Carlyle -
Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.
George Bernard Shaw -
'You, Aubrey, are my most complete man. You're a brave, compassionate, kind and content, man. That's your secret—contentment. I'm 24 and I've never known it. I'm forever in pursuit and I don't even know what it is I'm chasing.
Colin Welland -
What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.
Claude Monet -
A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
George Bernard Shaw -
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Jane Austen
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Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
Thomas Carlyle -
Our condition is most noble, being so beloved of the Most High God that He was willing to die for our sake- which He would not have done if man had not been a most noble creature and of great worth.
Angela of Foligno -
Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.
Emil Cioran -
Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.
Ariana Franklin -
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
Thomas A. Edison
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You can judge the success of a man by his bodyguards!
Prince -
One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.
Ben Chifley -
She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man.
Confucius -
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