Man Quotes
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The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it.
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Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
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I'm a sucker for a man who cries. It just gets to me.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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Never try to reason with a man who can see the blade swinging for his head.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down.
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Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
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One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.
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To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.
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Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.
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Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.
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Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
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Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
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If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
