Man Quotes

When I received the news of the Nobel Peace Award, I could not believe it. I told my father, 'I think they have the wrong name, Dad. Please, can you talk to this man on the phone? I'm busy cooking!'

~ Betty Williams

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

~ George A. Smith

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

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

~ Jorge Luis Borges

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

~ James Allen

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

~ Jean Paul

He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.

~ Tertullian

Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

~ Muriel Spark

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

~ Sting

Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth.

~ Andrei A. Gromyko

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.

~ Robert Bloch

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

~ Samuel Smiles

If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?

~ Warren Farrell

I was talking to a guy who was holding his 18-month-old daughter with the only limb he had left, and he had a smile on his face. I thought, 'I'm not even a 10th of this man.'

~ Ron White

The NBA Schedule was made up by one man, Eddie Gottlieb, who had owned the Philadelphia Warriors. Eddie had a Buddha-like body and a crinkly smile, and because he had also been an owner in baseball's old Negro leagues, he was known as the Mogul.

~ Frank Deford

A man can be drawn across the room with the simplicity of a smile. That's why your pearly whites should always be straight and shiny. I think most of my clients are drawn to a fun, flirty nature in a woman. The problem is, most women do not often feel fun and flirty.

~ Patti Stanger

I'm a fun song maker. I love to make people smile. I also love to see them big, burly dudes crying because their wives' song is 'Die a Happy Man.'

~ Thomas Rhett

If I buy a Fiat Uno, I'll read that, for a man like me, a Ferrari was more suitable. If instead I buy a Ferrari, they'll write that I should have kept my feet on the ground and bought a Fiat. If I smile, I'm not serious. If I don't smile, I'm a rich sulker that doesn't enjoy having the most beautiful job in the world.

~ Mario Balotelli

My father was short for a man, with a child's plaything for a name - Spinner. He had flawless dark brown skin and a head full of big, wet-looking curls, black as oil. And he had the smile of a scoundrel - the kind of smile that disarmed men and undressed women.

~ Charles M. Blow

Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.

~ Rachael Harris

I'm the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.

~ Donald Dunn

As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

~ Samuel Pepys

A man's kiss is his signature.

~ Mae West

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.

~ Steve Martin

I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.

~ Pat Paulsen

My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.

~ Alanis Morissette

I am the actor that I am. I do what I do. I've been a 'leading man' playing romantic leads for a long time now.

~ Pierce Brosnan

'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be classy, man. And romantic. And maybe 10 percent sexy.

~ R. Kelly

If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance.

~ Salma Hayek

A man's ability to haggle is never a turn-on. The only thing less romantic than how much you paid is how much you saved. The last thing we want to hear is how you talked the jeweler down on our new earrings.

~ Jennifer Coolidge

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.

~ Gene Tierney

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

~ Cyril Connolly

I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

~ Patrick Swayze

I did something that no brown-skinned man in the movie industry ever did. I made a brown-skinned man look very romantic - a matinee idol. If you think about it, what I introduced is historical because it had never happened before, and it hasn't happened since - not on that level.

~ Billy Dee Williams

Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic.

~ Ann Voskamp