The Man Quotes

You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success.

All coaches are thinking men, or else they wouldn't survive.

Joe Paterno was a well-educated man, and he was also a man from a different time.

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

The little man is still a man.

What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.

The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.

For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl. [Ger., Denn ein wackerer Mann verdient ein begutertes Madchen.]

Association with women is the basis of good manners.

A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.

Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will not; if honest man refuse it, others will not.

Let every man sing his own song in life.

Once a happy old man One can never change the core of things, and light burns you the harder for it.

My opinion is borne out of my childhood, my faith, my beliefs. That marriage is between one man and one woman.

... every man on the planet Has just as much right as yourself to the road.

A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they are as other men, sufficiently as others are to escape attention.

Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information.

A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray.

Mary had Joseph. Esther had Mordecai. Ruth had Boaz. We will not become the women God intends us to be without the guidance, counsel, wisdom, strength, and love of good men in our lives.

You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road.

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs.

The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.

Remember, the Islamist view of democracy is: one man, one vote, one election, and that's it.

She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.

But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?" I nodded into his shirt. "Gives you an idea how I feel about you," he said. My old man. He always knew just what to say.

Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot.

The happy man's without a shirt.

Happy man, happy dole.

It is better to be An old man's derling than a yong man's werling.

Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

It's amazing how quickly human beings adapt, isn't it? It was such a great crew, and David [Lynch] was wonderful to work with [on 'The Elephant Man']. It was a very thrilling time, actually.

I was brought up in a community, in a family that valued such things as good manners, and I still do.

Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.

The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.

A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men, who refuse to be disturbed, but who growl in their kennels.

One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.

Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.

As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.

The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.

I am a happy man. I've had a good life.

In Baby You're A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you're a rich man and we're all rich, heh heh, baby!