Man Quotes
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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.
Michael Faraday -
A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man.
Confucius -
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 -
"He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy"
Sigmund Freud -
To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
Henry Ward Beecher -
The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
Thomas A. Edison -
Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it’s only yourself.
Bennett Madison
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
Hermann Hesse -
Call no man happy before he dies.
Herodotus -
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.
Hamilton Wright Mabie -
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
Nikolai Gogol -
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.
Albert Camus -
The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.
John Ruskin
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Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body, Yet no man hath ever seen a soul.
Rumi -
Jesus wanted the man to have the peace that his heart longed for, but the man could not have it because he was living for himself.
J. M. Roberts -
A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results.
John Gray -
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
Tacitus -
I believe that woman is the equal of man - if she is. That woman is no better than man - unless she is.
Alice Moore Hubbard -
Loving a film is like falling in love with a woman or with a man like you never expect it. It it's not the one you think you will be in love with, you know. You think always that he will be with a beard, and black, and big and finally he's Chinese and you know it's the same thing. There's something very organic about the film and if you forgot it, if you don't have this seed in it...this organic flavor in it the film doesn't work it's wrong.
Luc Besson
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A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.
Henry Ward Beecher -
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.
Stephen Vincent Benet -
Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life.
Elizabeth Goudge -
Whereas, according to the declaration of that true man of the world Talleyrand, the use of language is to conceal the thoughts; this is to declare in the present instance, when I say I am not able to bear much talking, it means really, and without any mistake, or equivocation, or oblique meaning, or implication, or subterfuge, or omission, that I am not able; being at present rather weak in the head, and able to work no more.
Michael Faraday