Man Quotes

But you know that any showing of such an innovation is apt to start gossip. Just why, I don’t know. It, though, is a trait of Mankind only. Animals don’t ‘bloom’ out so abruptly. You can hunt through Biology, Zoology or any similar study, and find but slow, -awfully slow,— adaptations toward any form of variation. Hurrying was not known until Man got around.

~ Ernest Vincent Wright

It is a wonderful gift for the man to be welcomed by the woman.

~ Sameh Elsayed

The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think the reason he buys everything he can buy is that in the back of his mind he has the crazy hope that one of his purchases will be life everlasting!--Which it never can be....

~ Tennessee Williams

Do have a mind of your own. This is not just a spiritual matter only, but one which concerns ordinary manliness. I would do many things to please my friends, but to go to hell to please them is more than I would venture.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You are an intriguing combination, half child, half seductress, half angel.I laughed sort and bitterly. That's what all men like to think about women. Little girls they have to take care of--when I know for a fact it is the male who is more boy than man.

~ V.c. Andrews

What a piece of work is man!

~ William Shakespeare

We have come to know Man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

...let us consider the holes in our own bodies and into what these congenital wounds open. Under the skin of man is a wondrous jungle where veins like lush tropical growths hang along over-ripe organs and weed-like entrails writhe in squirming tangles of red and yellow. In this jungle, flitting from rock-gray lungs to golden intestines, from liver to lights and back to liver again, lives a bird called the soul.

~ Nathanael West

The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in Him we find both God and our misery.

~ Blaise Pascal

Man is the only animal on earth intelligent enough to invent God and foolish enough to believe in Him.

~ Manoj Vaz

Caveman used to be a hunter-gatherer...Modern man hunts for jobs(if he wants to be an employee) and for heads (if he is an employer), and later gathers paper in the form of currency notes, contracts, policies or shares.

~ Ankala V Subbarao

Man is meant for good but designed for evil.

~ Raheel Farooq

Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.

~ Richard Llewellyn

There were spaceships again in that century, and the ships were manned by fuzzy impossibilities that walked on two legs and sprouted tufts of hair in unlikely anatomical regions. They were a garrulous kind. They belonged to a race quite capable of admiring its own image in a mirror, and equally capable of cutting its own throat before the altar of some god, such as the deity of Daily Shaving. It was a species which often considered itself to be, basically, a race of divinely inspired toolmakers; any intelligent entity from Arcturus would instantly have perceived them to be, basically, a race of impassioned after-dinner speechmakers.It was inevitable, it was manifest destiny, they felt (and not for the first time) that such a race go forth to conquer stars. To conquer them several times, if need be, and certainly to make speeches about the conquest. But, too, it was inevitable that the race succumb again to the old maladies on new worlds, even as on Earth before, in the litany of life and in the special liturgy of Man...

~ Walter M. Miller Jr.

Man does not live in isolation, we depend upon each other.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much aboutsentiment.

~ Agatha Christie

Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized.

~ Criss Jami

A man is an angel that has become deranged, Joe Fernwright thought. Once they – all of them – had been genuine angels, and at that time they had had a choice between good and evil, so it was easy, easy being an angel. And then something happened. Something went wrong or broke down or failed. And they had become faced with the necessity of choosing not good or evil but the lesser of two evils, and so that had unhinged them and now each was a man.

~ Philip K. Dick

I'd believed mine was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies, the creation of hope. I thought hope could overcome everything, but I was wrong. Hope cannot overcome truth. Hope and truth cannot co-exist. Truth destroys hope. The most savage cruelties man inflicts on man are committed in the pursuit of truth. My last lie had been the most honest, the most honorable of them all, for there is an art greater even than the creation of hope. The greatest art of all is the destruction of truth.

~ Karen Maitland

Waiting, he thought, was the most miserable condition a man could find himself in. His whole life, he had been waiting for one thing or another.

~ Paul Russell

Deprived of the infinite, man has become what he always was: a supernumerary. He hardly counts; he forms part of the troupe called Humanity; if he misses a cue, he is hissed; and if he drops through the trapdoor another puppet is in readiness to take his place.

~ Rémy De Gourmont

What's happened with humanity, if was born inhuman man. 26.05.13

~ Vicdo

Next time we will look at this from a much more basic point of view and one antedating all zoology, which, glimpsed only a little after my twentieth year, made write in those days that what is most valuable in man is his eternal and almost divine discontent, a discontent which is a kind of love without a beloved, and like an ache which we feel in members of our body that we do not have. Man is the only being that misses he has never had. And the whole of what we miss, without ever having had it, is never what we call happiness. From this one could start a meditation on happiness, an analysis of that strange condition which makes man the only being who is unhappy for the very reason that he needs to be happy. That is, because he needs to be what he is not.

~ José Ortega Y Gasset

The trouble with me is, Treece thought, that I'm a liberal humanist who believes in original sin. I think of man as a noble creature who has only to extend himself to the full range of his powers to be civilized and good; yet his performance by and large has been intrinsically evil and could be more so as the extension continues.

~ Malcolm Bradbury

When you are born as a man, you live as a man. When you born as a woman however, you have two choices; to live like a slave, or as a woman. I love the fact that I was born as a woman because I got to make my choices. Who did you chose to be?

~ Shahla Khan

The choice of a man defines is paths.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We live to work.Man was made to move.Without work we shall grow old quickly.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is beauty in the soul of every man.

~ Lailah Giftyakita

Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that they are taught. They choose their lords and masters without judging them, with a fatal taste for slavery.

~ Gabriel Chevallier

Because he says he can't stand you and you act like you can't stand him, and whenever a man and a woman behave like that toward each other, it usually means something's going on.

~ Helen Oyeyemi

Joy, joy, joy!Past ages crowd on thee, but each one remembers,And the future is dark, and the present is spread,Like a pillow of thorns for thy slumberless head.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

In a place filled with fears, they were looking for the man who had none.

~ John Katzenbach

Then he returned to Mabel and put his mouth to her ear. I'd never let anything happen to you. You know that, don't you?

~ Eowyn Ivey

I Respect A Man Who Reads More Books Than I Do In A Day.

~ Godfrey Orateng

A man is just as sensitive as a woman because we are all human.

~ Terraine Francois

man is always equal to his purpose; when you control him, you do half a job but when you control his purpose, you do a total job.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

She was pretty sure Seth had practiced all his facial expressions and gestures in front of a mirror, and worked out which ones made him look like a cross between an Abercrombie model and a kitten.

~ Rainbow Rowell

AD is self-absorbed, weak, lusty and wrongdoer, and at the same time good, loyal, progressive, frank, and respectful. He is good. He is bad. He is ban. He is boon. He is justified. He is not justified. He is normal. He is abnormal. He is complicated or he is simple. But one thing is decided, he is natural and “this is a man.

~ M.k. Bhutta

A man, who needs you, will not come to visit you in the middle of the night. If he is there, definitely wants to stop you from being helpful.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

He’s such an extraordinarily brilliant person that it would be terrible if he let himself do nothing in the end.

~ Various