Man Quotes
It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
Homer
For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. For they only honour the valiant and admire the wise, while in addition they also love just men, and put entire trust and confidence in them.
Plutarch
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 man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.
George Bernard Shaw
Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.
Thomas Carlyle
A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.
George Eliot
One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.
Thomas Carlyle
Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
Herodotus
A man who is a man goes on until he can go no further—and then goes twice as far.
Steve Sheinkin
Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.
William Faulkner
If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea of Idi Amin living in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years of his life. That galls me to no end. I feel some sort of need for biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. My girlfriend says this great thing that’s become my philosophy as well. 'I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.'
Vince Gilligan
When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.
Alfred Harmsworth
