Man Quotes
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He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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This man of his, yes, this man. Now Sam accepts his own desire. “I’m a gayrod,” he shouts marching through crowded plazas. “I’m in love with a man, and I want men. That’s what I want. I want man, man, man!
Barry Webster
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As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.
Tom Hanks
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Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.
Arthur Helps
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To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.
John Ruskin
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Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.
Harry S Truman
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It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.
Gertrude Atherton
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A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.
Simone de Beauvoir
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The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.
George Bernard Shaw
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Thomas Carlyle
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No man can avoid being born average, but no man has to stay average.
Satchel Paige
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It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.
Thomas Aquinas
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A man is not a different person just because he becomes aware. Oh I know it must seem like metamorphosis when the eyes of a blind man are opened, but he's the same man. We grow, mercifully, and growth is just awareness of more and more.
Elizabeth Goudge
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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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Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
Thomas Aquinas
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You can just fight one man at a time.
Lennox Lewis
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A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
Henry Ward Beecher
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...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away... from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The man that does not fear punishment, little regards crime.
Norm MacDonald
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Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.
William Lloyd Garrison
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The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace
Ezra Pound
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One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Man and wife were supposed to stay together because they'd made their vows in front of God and family.
Nicholas Sparks
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
Marcel Proust