Man Quotes
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
Daniel Boone
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
Barbara Walters
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A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.
Abraham Lincoln
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar Wilde
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An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.
Socrates
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
Kapil Dev
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The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
Samuel Gompers
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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
H. L. Mencken
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
W. C. Fields
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We live a short enough time on this earth. A man should do what he loves.
Gail Tsukiyama
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Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.
Edgar Lee Masters
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
Gale Sayers
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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
Oscar Wilde
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Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Aristotle
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
Mae West
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.
Albert Einstein
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
Edith Sitwell
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
Paracelsus
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No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
Larry Wilmore
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The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.'
Idris Elba