Man Quotes
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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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Many people will laugh at the drop of a hat, especially if the man is still in it.
Evan Esar
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From the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way Charles Darnay's way the way of the love of a woman.
Charles Dickens
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A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
Seneca the Younger
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You can just fight one man at a time.
Lennox Lewis
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
Hermann Hesse
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While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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When God invented man, he wanted him to look like me.
Brian Oldfield
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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
Jules Verne
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I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.
Catherynne M. Valente
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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
Blaise Pascal
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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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...the fall of man in paradise has always been followed by his expulsion.
Adolf Hitler
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Many a wedding takes place when a man can't afford to go steady with a girl any longer.
Evan Esar
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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 purposely didn't change the pronouns in 'Dancing On My Own' so that it was from a gay man's perspective.
Anzia Yezierska
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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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It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.
George Eliot
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When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said, 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.'
Rudyard Kipling
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
Anthony Trollope
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I know I may never emerge as a leading man.
Everett McGill
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When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.
Jonathan Swift
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I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do.
Adolf Hitler