Man Quotes
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The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
Ovid
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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smarter than you, who claim to know nothing.
Socrates
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
Nikolai Gogol
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The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.
Owen D. Young
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Tiger Woods was a month away from 34 years of age when his debutantes began turning up in the news. He was a grown man with a wife and two children. Well, we supposed he had a wife, but that was before we learned she was only an ornament.
Dan Jenkins
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Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
Samuel Johnson
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors. TiVo! I was out there before TiVo came out, man.
Nate Torrence
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Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
Oscar Wilde
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Who sleeps at night? No one is sleeping. In the cradle a child is screaming. An old man sits over his death, and anyone young enough talks to his love, breathes into her lips, looks into her eyes.
Marina Tsvetaeva
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Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.
Vince Cable
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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
P. J. O'Rourke