Man Quotes
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One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.
Albert Camus
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Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony.
John Calvin
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I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
Thomas A. Edison
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The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
Thomas A. Edison
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At least once in their life, every man should feel what it's like to wear high heels.
Andrew W.K.
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One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.
Ben Chifley
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Lord God, I thank Thee that Thou hast been pleased to make me a poor and indigent man upon earth. I have neither house nor land nor money, to leave behind me. Thou hast given me wife and children, whom I now restore to Thee. Lord, nourish, teach, and preserve them as Thou hast me.
Martin Luther
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune.
William Faulkner
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I am a man with an open mind. I really don't know anything, but I'm very interested in the spiritual and the material.
Eva Mendes
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Life is too short to be unhappy in business. If business were not a part of the joy of living, we might almost say that we have no right to live, because it is a pretty poor man who cannot get into the line for which he is fitted.
George L. Brown
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True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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If I were a man with gills, I would be a fish!
Ryan Stiles
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A man who sets out to become an artist at the mile is something like a man who sets out to discover the most graceful method of being hanged. No matter how logical his plans, he can not carry them out without physical suffering.
Neal Bascomb
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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
Jane Austen
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I go shopping maybe three times a year in an intense way. I'm like a man. Can't spend too much time in a shop.
Eva Green
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Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.
George Bernard Shaw
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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
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Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.
Jonathan Swift
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Only one man has the right to boast, and that's the man who never does.
Evan Esar
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A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.
Ethel Barrymore
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Man shoot at nothing, sure to hit it.
Confucius
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To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.
Blaise Pascal
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Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.
Brice Marden