The Man Quotes

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.

In the past the man has been first in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.

A real man loves and respects his wife and is not only a good father but a man that his kids want to call 'Daddy.'

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

I'm incredibly fortunate to have met the intelligent, generous, risk-taking, stimulating man to whom I am married. He's really amazing.

Man is such an amazing animal, and the possibilities are infinite for each person.

The story of John Nash is an amazing, powerful journey. But as unique as this man is, his story is also very accessible because it is so heartbreakingly human.

To be knighted, that would be amazing. I remember Alex Ferguson from Man Utd got it and Steve Redgrave - to be in the same category as them is amazing.

Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.

I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.

A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.

Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen, ' but 'I shall rise.'

Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.

I come from nothing. When I got a chance to make some money, I was like, 'Man, I'm not ever going back.'

This ultimate fighting stuff is something I don't agree with. Once a man is down, you have to let him have a chance to prove how good he is.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.

I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.

Good man! Genuine gentleman! God bless George Thompson, the great-hearted friend of my race.

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.

God made the integers all else is the work of man.

In this coming year, I will seek knowledge from those wiser than me and try to teach those who wish to learn from me. I love being alive, and I will be the best man I possibly can.

The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge or Virtue or Goodness or Victory but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

Call a man 'ignorant, ' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.

Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

I don't fear that a man will wear out as quickly as he will rust out.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.

Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

There's such a thing, if you're a finance man, as hitting the figures you need to hit. But there's no equivalent in acting. It's a creative field. It's subjective. That's what I love about it.

To the medical man, astrology is invaluable in diagnosing diseases and prescribing a remedy, for it reveals the hidden cause of all ailments.