Man Quotes
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
Mae West
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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An honest man is always a child.
Socrates
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There are a few elements - especially platinum and palladium - that have the amazing ability to absorb up to 900 times their own volume in hydrogen gas. To get a sense of the scale there, that's roughly equivalent to a 250-pound man swallowing something the size of a dozen African bull elephants and not gaining an inch on his waistline.
Sam Kean
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. Bradley
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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
Oscar Wilde
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If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
Salman Rushdie
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
Hermann Hesse
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Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
Abraham Maslow
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My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.
Aaron Klug
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The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
Plato
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I love the book signings, you know, because I get to talk to real people, and a staggering number of people have said something very specific to me. "The Family Leave Law saved my family," or "Made our lives better," or, "The education aid that you provided made it possible for me to go to college." One man at 50 years of age got his college degree.
Bill Clinton
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I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
Ian McShane
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When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.
Albert Einstein
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
Dan O'Brien
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mahatma Gandhi
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She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera'
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
Orison Swett Marden
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
Jacob Bronowski
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it.
Oscar Wilde
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
Victor Hugo