Man Quotes
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
Blaise Pascal
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
Tacitus
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
Thomas Carlyle
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A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I guess I just do being a man different than some.
Ezra Furman
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For man is man and master of his fate.
Alfred the Great
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As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I think I did marry a marvelous man.
Elizabeth Edwards
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Everything comes to the man who won't wait.
Ada Leverson
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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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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
Tacitus
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But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?
George Eliot
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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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Every man and woman who has talent and hides it will be called a slothful servant. Improve day by day upon the capital you have. In proportion as we are capacitated to receive, so it is our duty to do.
Brigham Young
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From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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She was glad that she had not let on to Lonzo how she felt; a woman has business to be as strong as a man. No, a woman has to be stronger than a man. A man don't mind laying the ax between a calf's eyes; a woman does mind, and has to stand by and watch it done. A man fathers a little un, but a woman feels it shove up against her heart, and beat on her body, and drag on her with its weight. A woman has to be stronger than a man.
Caroline Pafford Miller
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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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I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.
Jane Austen
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The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him either.
Annie Oakley
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Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain't no game.
Burt Shotton
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The great question, whether man is of nature or above her.
George Perkins Marsh
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Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
John Lennon The Beatles
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The doctor said that every man will have cancer if he lives to be old enough. I don't know why I got it - I ain't old.
Ray Price