Man Quotes
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You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak.
Abraham Lincoln
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
Harold Pinter
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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
Calvin Coolidge
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
Paracelsus
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Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.
Zachary Quinto
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
D. H. Lawrence
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It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.
Vash Young
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In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's always like 'I'm stuntin' on you raps, or I'm better than you raps.' It's not a lot of 'Yo man, I idolize you raps.'
J. Cole
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I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
F. Murray Abraham
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Incontestably, the great centres of population in the primeval ages were the chalklands, and next to them those of limestone. The chalk first, for it furnished man with flints, and the limestone next when he had learned to barter.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
Harold H. Greene
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I was the greenest rookie that ever was. One evening I was standing out on the sidewalk when a stranger approached and said, 'You're famous already kid. See, they've named a hotel for you.' I looked across the street and sure enough, there was a big illuminated sign that read 'Johnson Hotel.' Well, do you know that I was so green that I actually believed the man!
Walter Johnson
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A man is the origin of his action.
Aristotle
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel Johnson
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
Sam Shepard
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The great object is that every man be armed.
Patrick Henry
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If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life.
Aristotle
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I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.
Eddi Reader
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
Carlos Castaneda
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No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
Fay Weldon
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When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
Edith Evans
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Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I've always had a man's mindset, and that's why I mostly have men friends, and that's why I've been around so many men. I've always been a tomboy. And any man that knows me will tell you I'm not a girly girl.
Karrine Steffans
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Desire is the essence of a man.
Baruch Spinoza