Man Quotes
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The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet’s dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
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The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.
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When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
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Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
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The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
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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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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.
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A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
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By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
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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.
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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Look at Sam Beckett. Most depressed man who ever lived, but he sure was funny.
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When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.
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Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the presidency in his own right and to pass his Great Society legislation through Congress.
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Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
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Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training, it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.
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Man who eat many prunes get good run for money.
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
