Man Quotes

I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.

~ Little Richard

Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.

~ Max Stirner

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

~ Dorothy Day

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.

~ Robert Peel

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

~ George Savile

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

~ Elbert Hubbard

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

~ Rudyard Kipling

It is necessary for him who would endure existence with patience that he should conceive himself to be something - that he should be persuaded he is not a cipher in the muster-roll of man.

~ William Godwin

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

~ Philip Stanhope

My wife makes fun of me by calling me a grandpa because I have very little patience for inconsiderate children. So if we're walking in the mall, and some kid goes by really fast on a skateboard, I become the grumpiest eighty-five-year-old man in the world and start screaming at them.

~ Rob Mcclure

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

~ Wilkie Collins

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

~ Joseph Stalin

I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip.

~ Henry Rollins

Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'

~ Bill Maher

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

~ Martin Luther King

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

~ James Dean

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

~ Abu Bakr

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.

~ Ron Paul

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

~ John Greenleaf Whittier

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

~ Jean De La Bruyère

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

~ Stewart Alsop

Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.

~ Annie Besant

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

~ Clarence Darrow

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

~ Horace

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

~ John Donne

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

~ Luigi Pirandello

The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.

~ Louis Farrakhan

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

~ James Anthony Froude

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

~ Albert Camus

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

~ Charles De Montesquieu

Man always dies before he is fully born.

~ Erich Fromm

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

My old man taught me a lot of stuff in his death that I don't even know if he would have been able to teach me had he been alive. And that was to never do stuff that can jeopardize the people you love and hurt them.

~ Freddie Prinze

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

~ Jean De La Fontaine

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

~ Daniel Boone

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

~ Aeschylus

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

~ W. H. Auden

I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll