What Is Man Quotes

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.

Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.

Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.

The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.

History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.

Golf is one of the few sports where a white man can dress like a black pimp and not look bad.

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

Abe shook his head, and now the smile was gone altogether. "That's not the reason either. Don't lie to me little girl." I felt my hackles going up. "And don't interrogate me, old man.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Man is not made for defeat.

They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

You can make your marriage a little bit of heaven on earth by following God's plan of teamwork.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.

Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.