Man Quotes
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To the man who is afraid everything rustles.
Sophocles -
Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man.
Homer
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With Pablo, I lose my reason, and with me, he loses his head; and then all that's left is a man pursued by justice and a woman pursued by the media who know and take care of and need each other, despite the pain caused by all the absences, all his crimes and her sins.
Virginia Vallejo -
A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
Homer -
It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
Bette Davis -
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
Arthur Helps -
A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.
George Eliot
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Inside every man, there's a yearning to express your wild side.
Nick Cummins -
However, no human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is.
Haleh Afshar -
No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing what half the people do calmly in peacetime: using the other half for food, heat, machinery and sexual pleasure. Man is the pie that bakes and eats himself, and the recipe is separation.
Alasdair Gray -
No woman has ever needed a man to be enough.
Courtney Milan -
This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.
Stephen R. Donaldson -
Every man lives at swordspoint.
Ellen Kushner
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Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.
Jane Austen -
Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.
Charles Dickens -
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
Euripides -
A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.
Walt Whitman -
I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.
Gerard Depardieu -
I stress the relevance of my work for cancer research because I believe that science must be useful to man.
Renato Dulbecco
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However tall trouble is, man must make himself taller still, even if it means making stilts.
Simone Schwarz-Bart -
True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.
Ben Burtt -
The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.
William Sloane Coffin -
God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.
Victor Hugo