Man Quotes
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake; and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue.
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Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.
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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
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I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do.
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To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.
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Show me a man without regrets and I’ll show you a man without a conscience.
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A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
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There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.
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“Man has to fight for what he wants, any way he can.”
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A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.
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If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.
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The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.
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I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.
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No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.
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A man who was loved by 300 woman singled me out to live with him. Why? I was the only one without a cat.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and actually fulfill God's will, and not let God's word be desecrated. For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.
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It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.
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I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.
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In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.
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A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.
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No man can lose what he never had.
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For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.
