Man Quotes
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Lady is the buddy of man, skilled with equivalent mental limit.
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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
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You can't depend on the kind of folks people think they are - you've got to go by what they do. And I wouldn't give much for a man that some folks hadn't thought was a fool, in his time.
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Since puberty, I've always known there was a possibility of me being with a man. It wasn't anything I felt the need to explore until the time came to explore it.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.
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Then a man sees that the Kingdom of Heaven is truly within us; and seeing it now in himself, he strives with pure prayer to keep it and strengthen it there.
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I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.
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Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
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Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property, some things he will place at the disposal of his friends, while of others he shares the use of them.
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The man, to me, ... is a legend.
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I am a man of my word.
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I think I am a moral man.
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A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.
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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.
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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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Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.
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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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The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.
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The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man is a noble savage. But he's only an animal. A meat-eating, talking animal. Recognize it. He also has grace and love and beauty. But don't say to me we're not violent.
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All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.
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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.