The Man Quotes

I am not a perfect man who has led a faultless life.

If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man's hat.

I'm convinced, more than ever, that man finds liberation only when he binds himself to God and commits himself to his fellow man.

Love manufactures every man into a poet while the fever lasts.

I'm not attracted to dangerous men. I'm attracted, apparently, to height. One ex was 6'6; the one before was 6'4, then 6'3. I like freakishly tall people.

There isn't any New Man. The New Man is the old man, only he whines more.

The decision to do it [play Maigret] was related to the fact that the character is a very ordinary man, and generally speaking I haven't played very many ordinary men.

The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man [Maigret] is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.

Certainly in the second film [Maigret's Dead Man], which is quite a more unpleasant and darker story, it's quite different in tone and feel.

I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.

One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. ---The Thousandth Man

Every man worthy of loving you won't make you change yourself.

Whatever you think of Romney and his politics, as a human being there's none better. As a man of integrity, man of character, there's none better.

The man in liberalism is usually going to be at fault.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.

Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.

The man would stop suffering, when he become capable of dissolving the I.

Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.

Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.

Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection.

A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.

Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.

To do something is in every man's power.

The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.

The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be avoided generally by the science of sparing.

The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes.

Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world.

He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.

Every man is of importance to himself.

A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good.

Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.

The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.

Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.

Reach out a hand to your brother, for the unselfish look out for their fellow man.

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.

What is one man's gain is another's loss.