Man Quotes
-
Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.
-
Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.
-
After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
-
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
-
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
-
The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.
-
100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner.
-
This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
-
A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
-
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
-
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
-
The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.
-
The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
-
Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
-
I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
-
Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
-
You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
-
Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.
-
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
-
Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
-
A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.
-
People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
-
To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
-
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
