What Is Man Quotes

What destroys one man preserves another.

A boy, by the age of 3 years, senses that his destiny is to be a man, so he watches his father particularly-his interests, manner, speech, pleasures, his attitude toward work.

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

All the older men are going for younger women, leaving the women with no one.

A generation ago there were a thousand men to every opportunity, while today there are a thousand opportunities to every man.

I'm not looking for anything. I think all men are dogs, I honestly do. Every man starts barking sooner or later.

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.

Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.

In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.

A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin.

It takes just as much to save a dead man as a living man.

Every moment waited is a moment wasted.

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.

Eventually every man gotta face the problem of tryin' to figger if it's worthwhile to prove that he is himself.

My old man never liked me. He gave me my allowance in traveler's checks.

The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

Every man should be capable of all ideas.

The good man makes others good.

The happy man in this life needs friends.

Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.

Godliness is the fragrance of the man who has attained enlightenment.

The real issue lies in the North beyond the Wall. Stannis becomes one of the few characters fully to understand that, which is why in spite of everything he is a righteous man.

Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public.

To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name.

In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

I've really actually grown with my girlfriends and the people that they've introduced me to and the way that I've been welcomed in by their families. I'm a very, very lucky man.

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'

I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures.

The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

Of all the people on Earth, the prefect and the greatest Man prayed.

As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

There's one thing my old man taught me and it's the best thing he taught me. It wasn't education at college or university – it was commonsense.

The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man