Man Quotes
-
The most important thing in a man is not what he knows, but what he is.
Narciso Yepes
-
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
-
The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
-
The truth is that man is one individual with two aspects, just like one line with two ends. If you look at the ends, it is two. If you look at the line, it is one. One end of the line is limited, the other end of the line is unlimited. One end is man, the other end is God.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
-
The man who has a girl in every port is not a sailor but a wholesaler.
Evan Esar
-
My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
George Bernard Shaw
-
When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.
James Boswell
-
Man is a tool-using animal.
Thomas Carlyle
-
He wasn't good with this sort of thing - with the back-and-forth dance between man and woman. He wasn't even sure if they were dancing, or if she was merely being polite.
Courtney Milan
-
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
Tertullian
-
If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.
Soren Kierkegaard
-
...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
William Faulkner
-
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.
Seneca the Younger
-
Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.
Thomas Carlyle
-
Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man.
George Puttenham
-
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-
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.
Rudyard Kipling
-
To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
Arthur Conan Doyle
-
A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.
Saul Bellow