What Is Man Quotes

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

I'm a better person now, and not only that - I'm a better man

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.

I do date quite small men. And one large man! Just one.

Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here.

Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.

Worship is at heart a person offered to God, claiming no rights, making no more selfish demands than a dead man does, but living fully, richly and wholly to God and by His power.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus and a chair that's not obtained from Craigslist that keeps poking into his back.

There are two things every man in America thinks he can do: work a grill and coach football.

My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.

People are so afraid to say the word "comic". It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to "graphic novel" and that disappears.

What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.

This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son was as educated as any white man.

Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.

When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.

The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.

The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom.

Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man, but it is the enemy of greatness.

Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.

The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he understands, but he remains unattached to any of them.

Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

Conquer the angry man by love.

I'm a man, and I think every man wants to be No. 1.

Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg.

Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.

In my lifetime, I may have put too much emphasis on winning, because here I am an old man and the only fun I've had is winning, and that's ridiculous.

It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?

Perhaps the final hour is come I have left no testament Only a pen, for my mother I am no hero in an age without heroes I just want to be a man.