Man Quotes
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The way a man rolls his swag tells the discerning much about him. It must be rolled to fit a pack-saddle, the right length, not too bulky, neatly strapped and the canvas clean of burrs. A man becomes very proud of his swag, for in a new camp it is his mark of identification.
R. M. Williams
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It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.
Blaise Pascal
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What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao.
Lao Tzu
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My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls thy hand, and without His behest, thou canst not strike a stroke. My God is sinless, eternal, all-wise, and in Him is my trust, and though stripped and crushed by thee, -though naked, desolate, void of resource- I do not despair:where the lance of Guthrum now wet with my blood, I should not despair. I watch, I toil, I hope, I pray: Jehovah, in His own time, will aid.
Charlotte Bronte
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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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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
Henrik Ibsen
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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
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Man loneliness was much bigger than boy loneliness.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I consider myself a man of the world; I connect very strongly with Nigeria, but I see that the work exists all over the world, and I will go where the work is.
Nonso Anozie
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Grief alone can teach us what is man.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The man can only ride you when your back is bent.
Sarah Palin
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The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.
Rumi
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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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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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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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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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The great question, whether man is of nature or above her.
George Perkins Marsh
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There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
Hartley William Shawcross
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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