What Is Man Quotes

Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people.

Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without a god. Without an airplane I am a lonely consumer of hamburgers.

I have always been a huge believer in the inestimable value good mentoring can contribute to any nascent business

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up.

I'll speak for the man, or against him, whichever will do him the most good.

Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safest.

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

Good manners are a part of good morals.

Every man has a right to keep his own sentiments if he pleases.

What’s going on?” he demanded. “The usual, old man,” I replied cheerily. “Danger, insane plans... you know, the stuff that runs in our family.

And I told you, I'm not going to pursue another man's girlfriend. You want to talk honor. There it is in its purest form

I've always believed the mission is greater than the man.

When I say things like 'Marriage should be between one man and one woman,' I'm called a bigot.

A strong, brave man is born each month, each year God gives a sage to men, A poet each ten years, perhaps, but an unselfish person,—when?

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him, all his life long.

But if there be an hereafter,And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'dAnd suffer'd to speak out, tells every man,Then must it be an awful thing to die;More horrid yet to die by one's own hand.

And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?

One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'

Every man has a day in his life when nobody can defeat him.

Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!

John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe.

Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.

It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword." --- Ingtar Shinowa ---

I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.

I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.

Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic

Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

There is no profit in deceit. An honest man knows revenge is not sweet.

At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent.

For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called.

A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.

Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the weather.

I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately insignificant object.

I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me. I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.

We as women are always watching movies and if you want to be cool you have to identify with the man in the movie.

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.

It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.

It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.

Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.

A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.

An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding.

Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.

Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man