Man Quotes

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

~ William Howard Taft

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

~ B. C. Forbes

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

~ S. I. Hayakawa

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

~ Errol Flynn

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

~ Max Muller

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

~ Oscar Wilde

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

~ Martin Luther King

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

~ Honoré De Balzac

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

~ Charles Morgan

A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

~ Marilyn Monroe

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

~ Alexander Pope

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

~ Ben Hecht

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

~ Michelangelo

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

~ Euripides

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

~ Hesiod

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.

~ Gwendolyn Brooks

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

~ Will Durant

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

~ Brendan Behan

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

~ George Jean Nathan

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.

~ Tammy Wynette

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

~ Tammy Wynette

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

~ Walter Scott

I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.

~ Q-Tip

Reggae, oh man. It's the ultimate music. The positivity. The musicality. The whole cultural expressionism of it. The danceability. Just the cool factor. The melody factor. Some of it comes from a religious place. If there were a competition of who makes the best religious music, it would definitely be the Rastafarian reggae.

~ Lupe Fiasco

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

To me, a sure-fire way to get in a rut is by sitting around playing by yourself for too long. You've gotta get out there and jam, man! You don't have to necessarily be in a band, all you've gotta have are a couple of buds who play too. They don't have to be guitarists either; jamming with a bassist or a drummer is cool.

~ Dimebag Darrell

You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,' Brian De Palma, handsome young god... he, in reality, is a very silly man. And I mean that in a good way. He'll walk around the set talking in little weird voices, making people laugh.

~ Eric Stoltz

I'm thinking, 'Man, there's this whole other group of people that are attached to me because of my last name and my family's roots.' That's pretty cool. That's special, that's a lot of power and it's important.

~ Mark Sanchez

Elves are cool, man.

~ Orlando Bloom

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

~ Ovid

Catty is not cool. I can't think of anything less becoming than a man who talks about people behind their backs.

~ Meghan Markle

The one person who's disappeared out of the business is the A&R man. Because the listener at home becomes the A&R man. He's the one who chooses what tracks he wants on the album. And that's cool.

~ Jimmy Page

I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.

~ Omari Hardwick

I wasn't always the most fashionable, and I would come to school with cauliflower ear and ringworm. I got made fun of a lot. People called me 'Miss Man' and 'Guns,' and people directed a lot of karate jokes at me. I wish that I was at school now that MMA and martial arts is cool, but back when I was in school, people associated it with nerdy stuff.

~ Ronda Rousey

People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? Why don't you have any fun?' My fun is Sundays. Anybody can go to the club. You don't have to be good at going to the club to go to the club. You have to be good to be playing on Sundays, and to me, that's what's cool.

~ J. J. Watt

When I drew Captain America in 'The Ultimates,' I hated my Cap, even though some people are like, 'Man, your Cap's cool!' and they made statues out of it.

~ Joe Madureira

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

~ Mark Twain

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte