Man Quotes

I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

~ Maya Angelou

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

~ Charles Baudelaire

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

~ Wallace Stevens

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

~ Stephen Greenblatt

Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.

~ Michael Leunig

Whether you like modern incarnations of what country radio hits are, or you like what I'm doing, or you like something really off in folk, poetry Americana land, it's all just music, man. If you like one of them, great - go buy it.

~ Chris Stapleton

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

~ E. M. Forster

When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery.

~ Billy Collins

Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.

~ Lady Gregory

I'll try anything, but the pig testicles in Taiwan were a little much. Eh, it wasn't half bad. There was this one dish I had there, the translation is, 'The Monk Jumps over the Fence.' It's a fish dish with all these spices. It was beautiful, man - it was poetry. It had a whole story.

~ Steven Adams

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

~ Robert Penn Warren

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.

~ Plato

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.

~ Robert Kennedy

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

~ Ayn Rand

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

~ Charles Dickens

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

~ Marcus Aurelius

The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.

~ Carine Roitfeld

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'

~ John F. Kennedy

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.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.

~ Lord North

A woman simply is, but a man must become.

~ Camille Paglia

I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

~ Whitney Houston

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

~ Iris Murdoch

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

~ Buddha

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

~ Augustus

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.

~ Camillo Di Cavour

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

~ Thomas Wolfe

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

~ Albert Schweitzer

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

~ Lao Tzu

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

~ J. R. R. Tolkien

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

~ Ulysses S. Grant

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

~ Margaret Thatcher

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

~ Coco Chanel

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

~ Howard Thurman

Sometimes a lot of us men think we are doing everything for the woman we love, but there is an aspect of a woman a man doesn't understand.

~ Shah Rukh Khan

My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.

~ Carlos Santana

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

~ Benjamin Disraeli