Man Quotes
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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.
Aristotle
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
Ian Mckellen
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
Oliver Herford
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Samuel Johnson
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Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
Ignatius of Antioch
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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.
Hal Boyle
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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
D. H. Lawrence
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Many traditions date the existence of angels and demons from a remote period before the creation of the world, but some connect the fall of Satan and his host with the creation of man.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
Oscar Wilde
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We should perceive that man's period of historical existence, a period so short that his physical constitution has not been altered in the slightest degree, is insufficient to allow of any considerable mental change.
H. P. Lovecraft
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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
Finley Peter Dunne
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Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.
Sophocles
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Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was black, I was denied service at many restaurants and could only drink from water fountains marked 'Colored.' When I went to the movies, I would have to sit in the Colored balcony.
Walter Dean Myers
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I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
W. C. Fields
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A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
Orison Swett Marden
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Gaston Bachelard
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Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
Oliver Goldsmith
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I've met Dick Syron. I like the guy. He's a man's man kind of character, a real charmer, the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with, as well as being an economist of considerable repute.
Gary Weiss
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
Haniel Long
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When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.
Walter Kaufmann
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The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.
Socrates