Man Quotes
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Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
Lafcadio Hearn
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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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The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.
Oscar Wilde
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
F. Murray Abraham
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A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.
Aristotle
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To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.
T.I.
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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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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
Orison Swett Marden
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The complete man must work, study and wrestle.
Aristotle
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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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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
Oscar Wilde
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Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.
Vicente Fox
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An honest man is always a child.
Socrates
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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
D. B. Weiss
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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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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
Dan Quinn
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
Sam Houston
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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
Oscar Wilde
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One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.
Oscar Wilde
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it.
Oscar Wilde
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I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.
Sam Hunt
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei