Man Quotes

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

~ George Bernard Shaw

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

~ Samuel Johnson

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

~ Samuel Johnson

Money is a poor man's credit card.

~ Marshall Mcluhan

Research indicates that most women want their man to earn more than they do.

~ Laura Schlessinger

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.

~ William Kingdon Clifford

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

~ Glenda Jackson

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

~ Seán O'casey

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

~ Doyle Brunson

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

~ Albert Einstein

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

~ Plato

A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.

~ John Paul Jones

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

~ Robert E. Lee

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.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

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

~ Plato

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

~ Francis Bacon

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

~ Liberty Hyde Bailey

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

~ Bill Vaughan

Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.

~ Orison Swett Marden

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

~ Marcus Aurelius

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

~ Adam Weishaupt

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

~ Bobby Unser

Education is the art of making man ethical.

~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

~ Pearl S. Buck

My dad didn't have a formal education, but he had a wonderful vocabulary. So in 'Harvest,' I wanted my main character to be an innately intelligent man who would have the vocabulary to say whatever he wanted in the same way as lots of working-class people can.

~ Jim Crace

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

~ Alan K. Simpson

Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man has grown up with, and good character may at times interpose, and justly save, under suspicion, one who is accused of crime on slight circumstances.

~ Levi Woodbury

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

~ John C. Maxwell

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.

~ Akhenaton

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

~ Gabriel Marcel

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

~ Aristophanes

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

~ Sophocles

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

~ Don Shula

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

~ John Keats

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

~ Thomas Huxley