Man Quotes
-
The man who can see the future has a date with the woman who can see many possible futures.
-
You need not fear me, for I not only should think it wrong to marry a man that was deficient in sense or in principle, but I should never be tempted to do it; for I could not like him, if he were ever so handsome, and ever so charming, in other respects; I should hate him – despise him – pity him – anything but love him. My affections not only ought to be founded on approbation, but they will and must be so: for, without approving, I cannot love. It is needless to say, I ought to be able to respect and honour the man I marry, as well as love him, for I cannot love him without.
-
When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.
-
If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.
-
There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
-
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.
-
Neither physical science nor psychology can ever 'explain' human consciousness. To me then, human consciousness lies outside science, and it is here that I seek the relationship between God and man.
-
Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.
-
The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
-
A man must claim responsibility for his own temptation, and not pin it on the woman who arouses him. It’s a gown, Sir Mark. Not even one of my more daring ones.
-
Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.
-
For man is man and master of his fate.
-
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.
-
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
-
Man is man because he is free to operate within a framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy.
-
Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters; But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can stand the brunt?
-
Honey, have you ever seen a man knitting socks?
-
The man who has a girl in every port is not a sailor but a wholesaler.
-
There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.
-
A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
-
The masterless man . . . afflicted with the magic of the necessary words. . . . Words that may become alive and walk up and down in the hearts of the hearers.
-
That absolute pure honesty of the horse, man that's just the greatest thing there is....
-
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
-
So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.
