The Man Quotes

I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I do not think myself a good man for enjoying it.

I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.

For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves.

Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.

Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25

I'm a family man. I just love being around my family.

I don't know nothing about that. I'm not the man upstairs.

It's been a long time since universal suffrage, and I'm sick of the old white men running the show.

Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others, and to avoid all that gives needless uneasiness.

Finn smiled ruefully. "I'm a Prisoner, old man. Just like you.

I encounter really tough men and women who are just so harsh, you can't bend them. You do come across these kinds of people in every profession-just unyielding.

There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.

When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.

You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.

I gripped the stapler even harder and felt like a fool planning to battle a crazy man with a stapler that even, I suddenly remembered, contained no staples. Well, strike that line of defense.

The vampire is not a bad man, and he loves you

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

like the fox I run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth I’m surely the luckiest man alive.

for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man has had

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.

An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.

It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.

The righteousness which is by faith in Christ is a loving heart and a loving life, which every man will long to lead who believes really in Jesus Christ.

There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!

It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.

If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities appear to be unbounded.

The man who has done his best has done everything. The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.

Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.

It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.

The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics.

I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an idealist and a romantic.

I would never sell my dog for a man. I'd sell the man.

You took a quarter century off my age with that kidnapping stunt. No more going off with a strange men, hear me? -"You're a strange man." I'm your strange man.

I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try.

Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.

I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.

I believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. That's my view, and that'll be the view of our state because I wouldn't sign a bill that - like the one that was in New York.

I'm very happy and lonely single old man - and bitter.

The Indians are still winning the battle against the white men, but sooner or later, the white guy will win.

Shaq is rich. The white man who signs his check... is wealthy. "Ah, here you go, Shaq. Go buy yourself a bouncing car. Bling, bling!"

If you see a black woman with an overweight white man, you know she got effed up credit!

White man makes guns? No problem. Black rapper says "gun"? Congressional hearing.

There's no interference in stand-up. It's all the things it's hard to get in film: I get to have a wife, I get to have kids. I get to be sexual. I get to grow. I get to be a man.

See, the Black man gotta fly to get to something the white man can walk to.

I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job.

For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.

The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.