Man Quotes
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.
Jonathan Swift
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Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!
Jane Austen
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I do like to belong to a man.
Eva Mendes
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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
Plato
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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.
Dante Alighieri
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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Thomas Carlyle
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For never, never, wicked man was wise.
Homer
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The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings.
Michael Gurian
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Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.
Norm MacDonald
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A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
John Calvin
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But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.
Epictetus
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
Jules Verne
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I'm a character actor. Nobody's ever seemed to think of me as a leading man. I'm 6'6''. I've got a big nose. I'm gangly. I've got crooked teeth. That's certainly not Brad Pitt. I'm still around and alive, so if they need older guys, I guess they're thinking of me.
James Cromwell
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No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.
Epictetus
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I don't understand when you say I'm a man or I have a deep voice. I know I'm a female, so there's no question for me.
Caster Semenya
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You may know more about vintage wine than the wine steward, but if you're smart you'll let your man do the choosing and be ecstatic over his selection, even if it tastes like shampoo.
Arlene Dahl
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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
Baruch Spinoza
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No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.
Thomas Gold Appleton
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...the fall of man in paradise has always been followed by his expulsion.
Adolf Hitler
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When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.
Cesare Pavese
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Man shows his character best in trifles.
Arthur Schopenhauer