What Is Man Quotes

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith

Only the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of this never-to-return. (p.148)

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.

I'm not a huge comic book fan, but I'm a closet fan of certain Marvel heroes, two of those being Iron Man, and the other being Guardians of the Galaxy, which I'm looking forward to.

Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good.

I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.

Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior...

The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind; but the odor of good people travels; even against the wind: a good man pervades every place.

There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.

If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.

It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.

Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.

England expects every man to do his duty

Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

Every man should esteem his neighbor as himself.

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.

I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.

I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.

I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like were supposed to.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

God exalts the man who humbles himself.

If you were going to compete successfully in a white man's world, you had to learn to play the white man's game. It was not enough that an Indian be as good as; an Indian had to be better than.

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.

The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?

A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!

To be a good manager of people requires both fairness and bluntness.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.

There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.

"A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit."

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.

Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.

I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.

I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.