Man Quotes
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I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?
Vida Blue
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Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey.
Venerable Bede
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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Abraham Lincoln
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According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
Naguib Mahfouz
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As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
Vaclav Havel
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
Jacob Bronowski
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As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.
Damon Albarn Blur
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
Patrick Kavanagh
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
Orison Swett Marden
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
E. L. Doctorow
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
D. H. Lawrence
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
Samuel Johnson
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Gaston Bachelard
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
Karen Salmansohn
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A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
Viktor E. Frankl
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Food-wise, oh man, I tend to really indulge on vacation because a lot of my friends are incredible chefs. One friend makes an eggplant parmesan that is heavenly and melts in your mouth, and another makes a chocolate pudding that I can't resist.
Rachel Platten
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If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.
Eva Gabor
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To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.
Earl Wilson
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Man, an animal that makes bargains.
A. C. Benson
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It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
Abraham Maslow
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
Oriana Fallaci