Man Quotes
-
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
-
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
-
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
-
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
-
I like a mannish man: a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman - not just a man with muscles.
-
I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
-
I'm a handsome man with a charming personality.
-
Robin Williams was a wonderful, kind, and generous man. One important thing I remember about his personality is that he was unassuming - he never acted as if he was powerful or famous.
-
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
-
For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
-
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
-
I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.
-
If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.
-
What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.
-
The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.
-
What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
-
The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.
-
Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.
-
I can't spare this man, he fights!
-
Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.
-
This man who was my father's age hit me hard on my head when I was 17. I started bleeding. I took out my sandal and hit his head hard, and he started to bleed, too.
-
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
-
I very much admire Uri Ariel. I think he's a man of principles, and effective, and I love him.
-
When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is altered.
