Man Quotes
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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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One of my life goals is to be a best man. It's a baller position. You get drunk, you make speeches, and you make love to the prettiest bridesmaid. Usually standing from behind.
Aziz Ansari
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Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman?
Sarah Jessica Parker
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We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.
John Ruskin
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Let a man nobly live or nobly die.
Sophocles
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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
George W. Crane
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The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
William Faulkner
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All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
John Locke Nazareth
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I couldn't live without my music, man. Or me mum.
Robbie Williams Take That
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The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?
Arthur Conan Doyle
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A man is so in the way in the house.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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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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Ultimately, no man or woman is happy unless they have found a way to contribute beyond themselves.
Anthony Robbins
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Any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man.
William Faulkner
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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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No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.
Thomas Aquinas
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This one man dynasty has only just begun.
Randy Orton
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
George Eliot
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Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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Man when not stimulated by hope or necessity is naturally a lazy animal.
George Trumbull Ladd
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Maybe a man can change. It helps when you've been injured, when you've been dislodged from the complacent routines of your life. Sometimes it takes an injury to make you see what you share with others.
Brian Morton