Man Quotes
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I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
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Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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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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You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his mediocrity prevents him from being a threat to others. And for this reason a democracy is never governed by the most competent, but rather by those whose insignificance will not jeopardize anyone else's self-esteem.
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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
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For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
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Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.
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No man fails who does his best.
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I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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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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I feel like we've already seen the burger truck, we've seen the lobster-roll truck. There's even healthy-food trucks now. But a big-thick-pizza truck? Come on, man. That'd be amazing.
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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
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As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
