What Is Man Quotes

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old Man Nathan!'

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a few times, people say, "Hey, we got a crazy man in the community," and they'll begin talking to you.

Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.

There is a time in every man's life when he looks to his God, when he looks at his life, when he wonders how he will be remembered.

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others.

I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.

Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.

We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.

I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.

If I had to choose one man to play for my life, it would be Nadal.

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I'm so happy to have her.

Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year.

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.

There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.