The Man Quotes

Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree.

My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.

Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.

It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity.

You want me to be a man,older than you, who goes by the name of Roullard.

Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side of it.

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.

Every man gets an opportunity once in a lifetime.

Every man is ignorant - just on different subjects.

President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over that. The Government never has been accused of being a business man.

In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.

A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is directed to her by the appreciative gaze of another man.

Apparently the average man sees woman alternatelyas an inferior being and as an angel.

A man who is not with a woman is a dead man.

And every man decideth The way his soul shall go.

Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself.

A drunkard is a dead man And all dead men are drunk.

And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.

Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is a pure joy.

Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which.

However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.

Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.

If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.

Poor man. Poor mankind.

A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.

A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

I don't know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.

How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

Every man is his own greatest dupe.

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.

Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity!

Let the end try the man.

...an old man is twice a child.

We must every one be a man of his own fancy.

Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.

Cowards die many times; a brave man dies but once.

I would not lose so great an honor As one man more methinks would share with me For the best hope I have.

An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.

For my own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men.

Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs?

What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?

Let all the learned say what they can, 'tis ready money makes the man.

Donald Trump behaving like a wild man. I mean, I just can't imagine that people want a human tornado sitting in the oval office.

I would dearly love to take up the brush again, but I realize that I am an old man and that I cannot set the world afire.

I first saw Dead Man in high school, and it changed everything. That movie was like a memory to me - I would get things that occurred in that movie confused with my actual life.