The Man Quotes

Bells, the poor man's only music.

Not every man was sorry when he hurt a woman.

I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back.

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

..he wanted her. And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover. . . as more.

I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?

There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.

There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you - in places where winning means survival and defeat means death - and that man is John McCain

Since Freud, people think you either want to be a man or hate men. You only exist in relationship to men.

Develop the feeling of brotherhood of man and fatherhood of God.

I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time commitment gets harder for theatre.

Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.

It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.

In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.

I didn't say anything. Got nothing to say. I'm a married man; I don't need a relationship with another man.

There is nothing for me to be sour about. What you got to understand is that I'm a military man. We usually do my shift for four or five years and then you got to move on.

Network heads don't seemed to be turned off by the men who get older.

Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!

He’s just another man who wants to teach me something.

Is the care of the dying man truly robbing care from the poor man? How reliably can we know when someone is in the last ten days of life?

You must try to forget all you have learned,” said the old man. “You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.

I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures had. I am rich with living.

The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed.

If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.

I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.

There comes a time in every man's life when he's gotta handle up on his own. Can't depend on friends to help you in a squeeze, Please...they got problems of their own.

I'm a family man. I always depend on my family when I am in dire need.

I think every rapper should know how to sing, like a little bit. I mean common man it'll make your rapping better straight up.

Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.

The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

Even a poor man can receive honors.

Swag defines an artist, period. Lil Wayne has his super-tattooed pierces and dreads swag. Jay-Z has his New York, grown man, Beyonce and 40/40 Club swag.

All athletes, without fail, are potentially great and good. A great athlete is a little man tirelessly inspired.

Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

There's a Welsh poet, R.S. Thomas. He was a very crotchety, strange man, but his poems are wonderful. He was nominated for the Nobel in the 1990s but never won.

Not many people like him, he's an angry man. He'd go after his own shadow.

How many times, over how many years, had he—a grown man—asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick of himself, so revolted, that he could have groaned aloud.

I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.

My favorite show from the '60s was 'Combat.' And maybe 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'

Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually.

Jared glared balefully at the old man, his eyes full of the shock and pain of the betrayed. I had only human comparisons for such a look. Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas.

Martin Jol is literally a dead man walking

Madame Kovarian: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules. The Doctor: Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.

The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals

To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains.

Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested.