The Man Quotes

The wisest man knows he know nothing.

The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.

Don’t become me. Don’t let her down like I did. You only deserve what you make yourself worthy of. Do what I couldn’t. Be a man.

... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.

A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

I started drinking Scotch just to be a man.

Old man with an old phone. That's never not funny.

I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home in South Africa. My father is a very caring and generous individual.

I myself was and still am a child of the people. It was not for the capitalists that I undertook this struggle; it was for the German working man that I took my stand.

A good man ("un homme de bien", Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity.

Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man.

all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.

I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

I'm a free man now, except I cannot leave China. You know, I have no desire to travel. I have so many things to do; I cannot finish them now.

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.

I've had several working-man songs that I like.

I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight. If you can figure out my success on the screen you're a better man than I.

From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.

Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.

He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.

A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.

Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.

The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.

I believe what I write to be the truth...every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about.

I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

I'm more of a "let the man come to me" girl.

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

The dream Dreamed by a happy man, when the dark East, Unseen, is brightening to his bridal morn.

Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.

The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.

Bush has said something new. He said, "If I will be president again, I will be a man of peace and serenity." May the Lord curse the liars, wherever they may be.

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.

And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in?

Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot.

There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.

It is going to take a very brave man to love me.

True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.

ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.

Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.