Man Quotes
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A man is nothing but breath and shadow.
Sophocles
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I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.
Jane Austen
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What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.
George Bernard Shaw
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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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There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
Sophocles
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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
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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
Tertullian
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Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
Harry S Truman
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Jonathan Swift
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
Alexandre Dumas
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A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.
George Bernard Shaw
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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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An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.
George Saville
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A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."
Henry Ward Beecher
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For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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I want a man in my life, not in my house.
Joy Behar
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A man who throws himself on God ceases to fear man.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The worse the man, the better the soldier.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.
Satchel Paige
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Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.
Ariana Franklin