Man Quotes

Hypocrisy a homage is true, That vice pays to virtue, Be man - himself so true, That no false does he brew.

~ Munindra Misra

It is important how people take you.

~ Aporva Kala

Man,ought to take care o his own business.don't you think, Mr. Mayor?

~ R.s. Belcher

It never ceases to amaze me how much people talk about relationships, think about them, read about them, ask about them - even get in them without a clue how to move them forward.

~ Steve Harvey

For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.

~ Lloyd Alexander

In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something wild.

~ Shaun Hick

It was not a monster that lay sleeping on the white sheets. Nor a faceless horror. Nor even the white bear. It was a man.His hair was golden, glowing bright as a bonfire in the light of the candle. And his features were fair, I suppose, but he was a stranger and that somehow was the greatest shock of all- that I had been lying all these months beside a complete stranger.

~ Edith Pattou

The size and height of the tree determines how heavily the ground will shake when it falls. The cassava tree falls and not even the pests in the forest are aware. The baobab tree falls and the whole forest looks empty! Such is human life!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Is a man truly what he see himself to be?''Only if what he sees is true.

~ Lloyd Alexander

A man without enemies is a man without character.

~ David Gandy

It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it

~ Ernest Hemingway

I thought I would stand myself a little dinner. I hadn't quite enough sense to know that what I really wanted was human companions. There aren't such things. Every man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease - that of thinking.

~ Aleister Crowley

But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.

~ Wilkie Collins

What man does not seek the power of his dreams, and believe in his ability to match the grace of his illusions.

~ Daniel J. Rice

What a man need is simply and solely independence volition, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

~ Stanisław Lem

Above all, man must learn once again what he is and why he was created.

~ Rama P. Coomaraswamy

I think that one of the biggest flaws ofmankind is that we become complacent with our lives.

~ Daniel Willey

He alone is a man who keeps his word:Not that he has one thing in the heart, and another on the tongue.

~ Guru Gobind Singh

For what was living with a man if it wasn't living inside his insanity?

~ Alice Munro

In yonder nether world where shall I seekHis bright appearances or footstep trace?For though I fled him angry, yet recalledTo life prolonged and promised race I nowGladly behold though but His utmost skirtsOf glory, and far off His steps adore.

~ John Milton

After your friendship with God, your wife's friendship is the greatest treasure you possess.

~ Jim George

Shalt thou give law to God, shalt thou disputeWith Him the points of liberty who madeThee what thou art and formed the pow'rs of Heav'nSuch as He pleased and circumscribed their being?

~ John Milton

She was so shattered about what kind of man he was -- brutal, tender, passionate. There was little doubt he had some mental disorder.

~ Margaret Way

There he is then, the unfortunate brute, quite miserable because of me, for whom there is nothing to be done, and he so anxious to help, so used to giving orders and to being obeyed. There he is, ever since I came into the world, possibly at his instigation, I wouldn't put it past him, commanding me to be well, you know, in every way, no complaints at all, with as much success as if he were shouting at a lump of inanimate matter.

~ Samuel Beckett

He was quite a Casanova, no doubt about it. He was in a very good mood today and stopped longer than usual. The girls could see he was gloriously drunk. ’Well, Ragna, why do you think I come here so often?’ asked Rolandsen. ’I’ve no idea,’ Ragna answered. ’You must think I’m sent by old Laban.’The girls giggled. ’When he says Laban he really means Adam.’’I’ve come to save you,’ said Rolandsen. ’You have to beware of the fishermen around here, they’re out-and-out seducers!’’There’s no greater seducer than you,’ said another girl. ’You’ve got two kids already. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.’ ’How can you talk like that, Nicoline? You’ve always been a thorn in my flesh and you’ll be the death of me, you know damned well. But as for you, Ragna, I’m going to save your soul wether you like it or not!

~ Knut Hamsun

If you ever look sideways at another man or attempt to refuse me I shall beat you. Got it?

~ Margaret Way

Minister: As I was saying, Alex, you can be instrumental in changing the public verdict. Do you understand, Alex? Have I made myself clear?Alex: As an unmuddied lake, Fred. As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer. You can rely on me, Fred.

~ Anthony Burgess

Well, God be with you,’ she said as she finally left him. ’I’m sure He is,’ he replied. She gave a start. ’Are you certain of that?’’He has every reason to be. Obviously He’s Lord over all Creation, but it can’t be anything special to be god of animals and mountains. It’s really us human beings that make Him what He is. So why shouldn’t He be with us?’Having delivered this impressive speech, Rolandsen looked rather pleased with himself. The curate’s wife would be puzzling over him as she walked home. Ha-ha, it was not so surprising that the little dome resting on his shoulders should have made such a great invention after all! But now the cognac had arrived.

~ Knut Hamsun

Was it really right to look the way he did? His prominent nose was altogether too immodest for his humble position in life, and he let his hair grow right through the winter so that he appeared more and more artistic. His fiancée reacted by saying that he looked like a painter who had ended up as a photographer.

~ Knut Hamsun

A man should be more original than a bouquet of roses and a box of chocolates. Flowers die and sugar sticks to your hips like a permanent record to a criminal.

~ Dannika Dark

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

~ Honoré De Balzac

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

~ Walker Percy

In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection.

~ Ford Madox Ford

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in:Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things.

~ Jim George

Having the right attitude is fundamental to being an effective leader.

~ Jim George

Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the universe. Would it not also be glorious for man to burst the limits of time, and, by a few observations, to ascertain the history of this world, and the series of events which preceded the birth of the human race?

~ Georges Cuvier

One of the most important things a man must bear in mind is this very thing - that he owes his fellow a transforming encounter.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.

~ Henry Fairfield Osborn

Through Christ we have a new identity--we should not be speaking to our old man, the sinner, and giving him his identity back.

~ Eric Samuel Timm