What Is Man Quotes

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.

Every man is the hero of his own song.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

The play of sunlight is amusement enough for a lazy man.

I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

The sight of one old man kneeling on all fours in front of me assembling a picnic table was enough to put all thoughts of lunch out of my head, possibly for life.

I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.

The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.

I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

I married the man of my dreams in 1998.

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

For every man that ever walked the Earth, except maybe the sociopaths, when it comes to talking to pretty girls... it's just stark terror.

The desire to know is natural to good men.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

The hungry nations of the world cry out to the peoples blessed with abundance. And the Church, cut to the quick by this cry, asks each and every man to hear his brother's plea and answer it lovingly.

Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

Be kind to an old man.

Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.

The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.

A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

I know what a good man is because I saw it in my father.

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

The common enemy is the white man.

The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.

I think women's ears are a lot more sensitive. Men are going to follow whatever appeals to women.

I think if I were to get as big as I could get, it does change your mind-state. I think like the little man. I think like the underdog. I don't want to change that.

All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.

One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.

The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.

Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.

The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.

Every man's actions belong to him.