Man Quotes

The man who pursues moral ends with unmoral means is involved in acontradiction of motives, and nullifies the object at which he aims,since he denies it by his actions.

~ Fredrich Von Bernhardi

The Beaver is an amphibious creature: by day it lives hidden in rivers, but at night it roams the land, feeding itself with anything that it can find. Now it understands the reason why hunters come after it with such eagerness and impetuosity, and it puts down its head and with its teeth cuts off its testicles and throws them in their path, as a prudent man who, falling into the hands of robbers, sacrifices all that he is carrying, to save his life, and forfeits his possessions by way of ransom. If however it has already saved its life by self-castration and is again pursued, then it stands up and reveals that it offers no ground for their eager pursuit, and releases the hunters from all further exertions, for they esteem its flesh less. Often however Beavers with testicles intact, after escaping as far away as possible, have drawn in the coveted part, and with great skill and ingenuity tricked their pursuers, pretending that they no longer possessed what they were keeping in concealment.

~ Aelian

Until Einstein (roughly), THE universe of Newton was, for us, THE universe. With Einstein, it became A universe. Something similar happen to man. A new 'man' was produced, just as good, certainly contraditory to the old one. THE man became A man, otherwise a 'conceptual construction', one among the infinity of possible ones.

~ Alfred Korzybski

Man is only a forgetful mortal, but God — He sees, hears and remembers everything.

~ Suzy Kassem

A pretty face and a beautiful body blind a man more quickly than any poker through the eyes.

~ Francine Rivers

When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.

~ C.s. Lewis

Your feelings may be the strongest,’ replied Anne, ‘but the same spirit of analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most tender. Man is more robust than woman, but he is not longer lived; which exactly explains my view of the nature of their attachments. Nay, it would be too hard upon you, if it were otherwise.

~ Jane Austen

A man limits his abilities himself according to his created interest, and then he pays very little attention to unliked things. Understand that man can become whatever he wants to be, just “Interest and Want“ play the role.

~ Faisal Nawaz Maitlo

What is a saint supposed to do, if not convert wolves?

~ Umberto Eco

And do stop trying to determine if I am a man or a woman. The fact is I'm a good part both and therefore neither one. I was just explaining to your Aunt Queen. I was born endowed with the finest traits of both sexes and I drift this way and that as I choose.

~ Anne Rice

There should be medals struck for men who produce tea at exactly the moment it's needed.

~ Jodi Taylor

A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, and a sympathetic woman gets him.

~ Helen Rowland

Isn't it strange that having a dick automatically makes you a man, but having a vagina isn't enough to make me a woman?

~ Christina Engela

While many people define being a man or a woman as being dependent on reproductive capacity, it is worth noting (should such a superficial argument present itself) that there are many males and females who are born male or female and cannot reproduce either. Are they to be considered 'not male' and 'not female'? Or does that only apply to transgender people?

~ Christina Engela

You are the Perfect Young Man: honest, clean, virile.

~ Edmund White

The complexities of life can never be untangled by man, like a sheep without a shepherd we have been self-programmed for destruction. Jesus Christ is the only way. Genesis 3:6 and John 14:6.

~ Felix Wantang

Man had to hang on to his pride.

~ Robert Ferrigno

Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the blue, in the middle of the day, at the center of a public place, like a cerebral attack. Check mated by 'daily routine', he may feel trapped in a smothering set of circumstances and only a deconstruction of all impeding barriers can bring about a vital mental deliverance. ( Check and mate )

~ Erik Pevernagie

A Man who has the confidence to not feel the need to defend his point of view and at the same time possess the openness to accept other's point of view, without being judgemental, yet managingto stay true to his convictions - Is the Man of Real Substance!

~ Wordions

When man was created it was not for this purposeTo become taken over and be utterly worthless

~ Justin Bienvenue

She struggled against him and then kicked him with her knee, right between his legs. He won’t be treating her like this. Bastard. There was a fury inside her, that made her disliking of guys even bigger. He stumbled back, his hand loosening his trip. His face is twisted in pain, and he was completely out of the breath. Angel felt satisfaction. He deserved that.How about this, you ignorant asshole! Keep your hands off of me and leave me alone! she spat at his face. She barely held back, to not kick him again.

~ Amber M. Kestner

This mysticism, whose mysticism? This belongs to this body. See, God is nothing, this human being is all and within this human body there is infinite power. Man is all, nothing beyond it and we could not fathom of the infinite power of a human body.

~ Sri Jibankrishna Or Diamond

Wasn’t it correct in America to call a man ‘handsome’ rather than ‘beautiful’?

~ Edmund White

Man can destroy a mountain within a day, but a Man cannot build a mountain in a single day or the rest of his days

~ Cj Lacuesta

(by the way . . . I realize I switch from present to past tense, and if you don't like it . . . ram a nipple up your scrotum. -printer: leave this in.)

~ Charles Bukowski

Oh,” Obliteration continued, “I think that you’ll find a man can do many things thought impossible, if he tries hard enough.

~ Brandon Sanderson

See a man as a good opportunity and that is what he becomes. See him as bad luck and he becomes your headache.

~ Paul Bamikole

Lives there upon any world such another as John Carter, Prince of Helium? Lives there another man who could fight his way back and forth across a warlike planet, facing savage beasts and hordes of savage men, for the love of a woman?

~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure.

~ Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Life is short, nature is hostile, and man is ridiculous; but oddly enough most misfortunes have their compensations, and with a certain humour and a good deal of horse-sense one can make a fairly good job of what is after all a matter of very small consequence.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

Your little r changes the status of a single lady ‘Ms’ into a respectable lady ‘Mrs’. Man, you make the difference!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

For man always looked to hire a fool to amuse him without knowing he was one all along.

~ Hanna Abi Akl

Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man.

~ Horace Walpole

I feel Man would be wise to work at correcting his own mistakes instead of waiting for intervention from on high, and should replace faith in an unknowable divine plan with a well-thought-out scheme of his own.

~ Mark Hodder

She remembered Fiona saying something once, there was nothing more attractive than a competent man. At the time she'd been a young girl, without true understanding, but now she agreed.

~ Lily Blackwood

A man who can make love with another man can also make love with the enemy.

~ David Lagercrantz

Yes, I am crying although I am a man. But has not a man eyes! Has not a man hands, limbs,senses, thoughts, passions? Is he not fed with the wine food, hurt by the same weapons, warmed and cooled by the same summer and winter as a woman? If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? And if you poison us, do we not die? Why shouldn't a man complain, a soldier weep? Because it is unmanly? Why is it unmanly?

~ August Strindberg

Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked; they are, on the contrary, creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness. As a result, their neighbor is for them not only a potential helper or sexual object, but also someone who tempts them to satisfy their aggressiveness on him, to exploit his capacity for work without compensation, to use him sexually without his consent, to seize his possessions, to humiliate him, to cause him pain, to torture and to kill him. Homo homini lupus [man is wolf to man]. Who, in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will have the courage to dispute this assertion?

~ Sigmund Freud

You will say that that was in the comparatively barbarous times; that these are barbarous times too, because also, comparatively speaking, pins are stuck in even now; that though man has now learned to see more clearly than in barbarous ages, he is still far from having learnt to act as reason and science would dictate.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is comforting, however, and a source of profound relief to think that man is only a recent invention, a figure not yet two centuries old, a new wrinkle in our knowledge, and that he will disappear again as soon as that knowledge has discovered a new form.

~ Michel Foucault