Man Quotes
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There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
Homer
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A man another woman can steal from you ain't your man no way.
Alice Randall
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Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.
Blaise Pascal
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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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Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You can't expect a man like me to be loyal to just one woman.
Scott Glenn
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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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Which do you think is the more impossible dream: the perfect man or the perfect handbag?
Nicole Hollander
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A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.
Honore de Balzac
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The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.
William Sloane Coffin
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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
William Morris
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The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?
Thomas Carlyle
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The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky The deer to the wholesome wold; And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid, As it was in the days of old.
Rudyard Kipling
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It is quite proper to meet a young man at a cocktail party and go on to dinner with him. If he is attractive, you can consider yourself not only correct, but lucky.
Alice-Leone Moats
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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
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And he says “I know about your man” ...and their hearts will broken if you can't decide between them.
Pete Yorn
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In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.
Bob Marley
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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
Arthur Helps
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And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way.
Angela Johnson
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A man may lie to his psychiatrist, his doctor, his wife, his employer, to God and to Mom, but his teeth tell all.
Stephen Hunter
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The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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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
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It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
William Faulkner