Man Quotes

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

~ Paulo Coelho

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

~ Tom Wolfe

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.

~ John Keats

I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.

~ Mariel Hemingway

As we all know, there is inner beauty and outer beauty. If we examine inner beauty, to me there is nothing more beautiful than inner peace, in a man or a woman.

~ Alice Greczyn

The beauty of man's being, fashioned as he is in the fairest of forms, demonstrates the existence of the Maker, while at the same time the fact that, together with his comprehensive abilities, lodged in that fairest of forms, he soon declines and dies, demonstrates the existence of the resurrection.

~ Said Nursi

Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.

~ Saskya Pandita

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

~ Oliver Herford

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

~ Thor Heyerdahl

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

~ Lana Turner

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

~ Milton Berle

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.

~ Eminem

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

~ Laurence J. Peter

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

~ Robert Frost

The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking.

~ Agyness Deyn

Objectifying is kind of a funny thing. Art is objectification, all art, because you're taking someone and making them into an object. But people can also talk back more to you when you're sketching them. They can look at you and say, 'Oh man, you got me wrong.'

~ Molly Crabapple

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

~ Ernest Hemingway

You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

~ H. Jackson Brown

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

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

~ Zsa Zsa Gabor

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

~ Samuel Beckett

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

~ H. L. Mencken

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

~ Jerry Lewis

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

~ Margaret Smith

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

~ Samuel Johnson

A lot of comedies are based on the reaction shot. You have one person doing something stupid and one person is generally the straight man, and the laughs generally come on the reaction of the straight man to the funny thing the other person has done.

~ Richard Ayoade

When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always thought he was going to last longer. I knew him as being really funny, but at the same time, he had a dark side.

~ Robin Williams

What's interesting about Laurel and Hardy is that in most comedy teams, there's a straight man, and then there's the funny guy. And with Laurel and Hardy, they're both the funny guy.

~ Christopher Guest

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

~ Josh Billings

One man's folly is another man's wife.

~ Helen Rowland

Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.

~ Tippi Hedren

I realized I was gay in the shower one day with Barbra Streisand. It happened while I was lathering, rinsing, and repeating with Pert Plus. As I was belting out the chorus to my favorite song from 'Funny Girl,' 'Oh my man, I love him so, he'll never know...' it hit me.

~ Ross Mathews

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.

~ Jilly Cooper

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

~ Robert Byrne

Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of London and was very dynamic, and I understood why my mother fell in love with him.

~ Patsy Kensit

Man lives by imagination.

~ Havelock Ellis

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

~ Tom Waits

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

~ Baruch Spinoza