Man Quotes
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
Edith Sitwell
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A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.
Benjamin Butler
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
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Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.
Socrates
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A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
T. E. Lawrence
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
Ted Turner
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I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.
Lapo Elkann
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The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
Malcolm X
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
Kapil Dev
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I'm not a leading man.
Aaron Paul
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde
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To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
Calvin Harris
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
Barbara Walters
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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
H. L. Mencken
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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
Oscar Wilde
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
D. Elton Trueblood
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson
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Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
Edmund White
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For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.
Kajol
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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
C. Wright Mills
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The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.
Aristotle
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
Karl G. Maeser
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Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
Daniel Boone