Man Quotes

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

~ Charles Bukowski

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

~ Henry Cabot Lodge

I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.

~ Johnny Vegas

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

~ Ronald Reagan

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

~ Bernard Baruch

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

~ Harry S Truman

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

~ Thomas Jefferson

The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big business man' and very busy, he does not neglect; he is busy with politics, oh, very busy and very businesslike.

~ Lincoln Steffens

Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.

~ Lincoln Steffens

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

~ B. R. Ambedkar

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.

~ William Hague

I'm willing to take a polygraph test to prove that I'm happy about Kahlon's return to politics. He's a good man, a man who cares. It's good to have people like that in politics, I have no problem with that.

~ Yair Lapid

Forget politics and what their platforms were and everything, because you can take whoever you want to take, but the guy that I liked was Nixon... He was a smart man.

~ Terry Bradshaw

The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had any relationships with.

~ Alan Greenspan

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

~ Woodrow Wilson

'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.

~ Orhan Pamuk

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

~ Jeane Kirkpatrick

Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.

~ Charlie Crist

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

~ Carter Glass

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

~ William Blake

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

~ Jane Austen

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

~ Confucius

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

~ Mencius

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

~ Henry David Thoreau

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

~ Samuel Johnson

Never was a man further from a partiality for Spain than I am. But I think I now have left them in a sincere and steady intention to cultivate the friendship of America.

~ Marquis De Lafayette

Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.

~ Mother Angelica

I came to know Gore Vidal in the mid-1980s, when I was living in southern Italy, virtually a neighbour, and our friendship lasted until his death in 2012. Needless to say, he was a complicated and often combative man.

~ Jay Parini

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.

~ August Strindberg

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

~ Alvin Ailey

I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.

~ Kapil Dev

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

~ Bruce Springsteen

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

~ William Shakespeare

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

~ Voltaire

I think I'm probably a very sad man wrapped in a very joyful package, and I think I'm very resilient, and I think I'm quite generous, sometimes to a fault. And I'm very bad with money, but I don't see that too much of a flaw.

~ Dave Matthews

Many marriages break up over hormonal imbalance, which is truly sad because it comes from a lack of understanding. When hormones are put back in balance with natural bioidentical hormones, a woman or man resumes their normal life of feeling good and having days filled with quality.

~ Suzanne Somers

If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg