Man Quotes

You should know it yourself- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.

~ Markus Zusak

(On having being just proposed to)'Have you been thinking of this for long?' she managed jerkily, praying for the shock to recede so that she could behave a little more normally.'Let's say it crept up on me,' he suggested lightly.That didn't sound very romantic. Muggers crept up on you; so did old age.

~ Lynne Graham

No weekends for the gods now. Warsflicker, earth licks its open sores,fresh breakage, fresh promotions, chanceassassinations, no advance.Only man thinning out his own kindsounds through the Sabbath noon, the blindswipe of the pruner and his knifebusy about the tree of life...Pity the planet, all joy gonefrom this sweet volcanic cone;peace to our children when they fallin small war on the heels of smallwar - until the end of timeto police th eearth, a ghostorbiting forever lostin our monotonous sublime.

~ Robert Lowell

Although Jesus Christ was Himself the Creative Deity, by whom all things were made, as man He humbled Himself--set aside His divine prerogatives and walked this earth as man -- a perfect demonstration of what God intended man to be--the whole personality yielded to and occupied by God for Himself.

~ W. Ian Thomas

It was a boyish thing to do and it caught the hesitating girl in the depths of her heart, as the boy element in a man ever appeals to a motherly woman.

~ Gene Stratton-Porter

Hell hath no fury like a man embarrassed by a woman

~ J.r. Rain

Ax-man. Cardboard isn’t one of the major food groups, remember?”-Marco

~ Katherine Applegate

If I become the man you want, I wouldn't be the man I am.

~ Michael Robotham

The modern man has become a machine for survival, which is largely the result of work of chemicals and genetic codes.

~ Lynne Mctaggart

She had the habit of making up virtuous qualities in a man to support her attraction.

~ Alyssa Kress

O The irony of man, he thinks he's past generation did not repeat the same way of thinking, either intelligently or foolishly.

~ A Gentleman

While a creator does and must worship Man (which means his own highest potentiality; which is his natural self-reverence), he must not make the mistake of thinking that this means the necessity to worship Mankind (as a collective). These are two entirely different conceptions, with entirely - (immensely and diametrically opposed) - different consequences.

~ Ayn Rand

That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration

~ Joseph Warren

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Let the love grow. Your mistake would be to rush it. Never allowing the seeds you've planted to grow, is all you'll be doing. Everything takes time. Nothing blooms overnight. If you want that man to stay in your life you must be the woman in the relationship. Men if you want that woman to stay, you must be the man in the relationship. Nothing just comes to you. If you want it, you have to try and even sacrifice. No pain, no gain. That's life, whether you accept it or not it's going to always stay the same.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.

~ Barry Lyga

If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to overreact, to swing from exuberance when things are going well to deep depression when they go wrong. Booms and busts are products, at root, of our emotional volatility.

~ Niall Ferguson

And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

~ William Faulkner

The classical anthropological question, What is man?—how like an angel, this quintessence of dust!—is not now asked by anthropologists. Instead, they commence with a chapter on Physical Anthropology and then forget the whole topic and go on to Culture.

~ Paul Goodman

A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of.

~ Jack Kerouac

Who can give a man this, his own name?

~ George Macdonald

A woman’s smile will always make a good man’s day.

~ Ron Baratono

Men can go to hell! I’ll meet them there.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention; and what we term justice is truly nothing but this equilibrium transformed, as honey is nothing but a transformation of the sweetness found in the flower. Outside man there is no justice; within him injustice cannot be.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

We are not wrong, perhaps, to be heedful of justice in the midst of a universe that heeds not at all; as the bee is not wrong to make honey in a world that itself can make none. But we are wrong to desire an external justice, since we know that it does not exist. Let that which is in us suffice. All is for ever being weighed and judged in our soul. It is we who shall judge ourselves; or rather, our happiness is our judge.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

~ Stephen King

The superior man understands what is right the inferior man understands what will sell.

~ Confucius

A man should never neglect his family for business.

~ Walt Disney

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.

~ P. T. Barnum

I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.

~ Smedley Butler

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

~ Thurgood Marshall

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

~ Colonel Sanders

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

~ Will Rogers

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

~ Henry Ford

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

~ Abraham Lincoln

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

~ Henry Ford

If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.

~ Bradley Cooper