Man Quotes

If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.

To be a man you've gotta beat the man.

I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Man is what he believes.

I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Man is a universe within himself.

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

As Unto the bow the the cord is ,So unto the man is woman;Though she bends him, she obeys him,Though she draws him , yet she follows:Useless each without the other.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

A man with God is always in the majority.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.

If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this sacred human emotion?...Is love incompelete without it?...Is love the name of physical excersize ?

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

A man's kiss is his signature.

Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.

Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

Vote for the man who promises least—he'll be the least disappointing.

To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him regular work, or even to give him a University education. These things are all outside a man, and if the inside remains unchanged you have wasted your labor. You must in some way or other graft upon the man's nature a new nature, which has in it the element of the Divine.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

One man with courage makes a majority.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Woman was God's second mistake.

Time and tide wait for no man.

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.

When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it. When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on. When a man spends someone else's money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but doesn't care at all how much he spends. And when a man spends someone else's money on someone else, he does't care how much he spends or what he spends it on. And that's government for you.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Every man has a wild beast within him.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

The best way to behave is to misbehave.

Man is a being in search of meaning.

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species — man — acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.

A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future.

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

If a man smiles all the time, he's probably selling something that doesn't work.

He was a wise man who invented beer.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

If you want something said, ask a man...if you want something done, ask a woman.

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

You can crush a man with journalism.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears."

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

A man who is afraid will do anything.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

My only wish isto transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, devotees of prayer into devotees of work, candidates for the hereafter into students of the world, Christians who, by their own procession and admission, are half animal, half angel into persons, into whole persons.

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.

Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.

In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.

Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.

A man is known by the books he reads.

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

England expects that every man will do his duty.

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

A hard man is good to find.

For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

Life is a useless passion.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run.

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

Men argue. Nature acts.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it at which point they can become human too.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

Behind every great man there is a suprised woman.

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

I am not a man, I am dynamite!

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while intent on his personal convenience, a dedicated voluptuary, a hater of learning, freedom and truth, without a thought for the interests of his country, and measuring everything in terms of his own profit and desires.

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

Nothing dissects a man in public quite like golf.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character, and then he is never made radically better for its influence.

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

Its not easy being a man you know. I had to get dressed today… and there are other pressures.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies.

I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company

A man in the house is worth two in the street.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself. If man, as the existentialist conceives him, is indefinable, it is because at first he is nothing. Only afterward will he be something, and he himself will have made what he will be.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Any man who dies with more than $10000 to his name is a failure.

Man is by nature a political animal.

When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

The only greatness for man is immortality.

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.

The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried.

Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.

Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

A man can do all things if he will.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of himself, complete: he searches for his soul, he inspects it, he puts it to the test, he learns it. As soon as he has learned it, he must cultivate it! I say that one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet becomes a seer through a long, immense, and reasoned derangement of all the senses. All shapes of love suffering, madness. He searches himself, he exhausts all poisons in himself, to keep only the quintessences. Ineffable torture where he needs all his faith, all his superhuman strength, where he becomes among all men the great patient, the great criminal, the great accursed one—and the supreme Scholar! For he reaches the unknown! ....So the poet is actually a thief of Fire!

A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.

Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.

It's a wonderful feeling when your father becomes not a god but a man to you - when he comes down from the mountain and you see he's this man with weaknesses. And you love him as this whole being, not as a figurehead.

If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

Bowie's a real man, and I'm a real woman - just like Catherine Deneuve.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.

If you really believe in the brotherhood of man, and you want to come into its fold, you've got to let everyone else in, too

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

The cynic says, 'One man can't do anything.' I say, 'Only one man can do anything.'

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.

No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster.

A young man fills out an application for a job and does well until he gets to the last question, "Who Should we notify in case of an accident?" He mulls it over and then writes, "Anybody in sight!"

What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.

No one does anything from a single motive.

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.

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.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

A man ought to do what he thinks is right

The greatest thing a man can do in this world, is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.

Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown."

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.

The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world's History.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

I like a man who can run faster than I can.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

Nobody picks on a strong man.

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Never trust a man with short legs. His brains are too near his bottom.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life by keeping eyes, mind and heart open to nature, men, books, experience - and what he gathers serves him at unexpected moments in unforeseen ways.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him - pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?

Respect a man, he will do it the more.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

I have never been sexually aroused by a man. But I have yet to kiss Johnny Depp, so you never know.

Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follows that man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

I long for scenes where man has never trod; A place where woman never smil'd or wept; There to abide with my creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept: Untroubling and untroubled where I lie; The grass below—above the vaulted sky.

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

...no man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters.

A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

Every man is like the company he wont to keep.

All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Dayis devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid

A great man is one who has not lost the child's heart.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

No man can write who is not first a humanitarian

He died right after he retired, and seeing that made me feel more conscious of a man needing a motive to live. If I ever got out of coaching, I would have to get a job somewhere, or I'm afraid I'd wilt on the vine, too.

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.