Man Quotes

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

~ Phyllis Diller

A man growing old becomes a child again.

~ Sophocles

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

~ Jonathan Swift

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

~ Brigham Young

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

~ William Blake

It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.

~ Ben Stein

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

~ Jonathan Swift

At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.

~ Maria Montessori

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

~ Felix Frankfurter

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

~ William Shakespeare

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

~ George Bernard Shaw

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

~ John Denham

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

~ Walker Percy

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

~ Jamie Foxx

I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

~ Carine Roitfeld

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.

~ Nicolas Cage

Tiger Woods was a month away from 34 years of age when his debutantes began turning up in the news. He was a grown man with a wife and two children. Well, we supposed he had a wife, but that was before we learned she was only an ornament.

~ Dan Jenkins

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

~ Don Marquis

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

~ Warren Beatty

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

~ Norman Douglas

Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.

~ John Osborne

No man is ever old enough to know better.

~ Holbrook Jackson

Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.

~ Ben Casnocha

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

~ Bob Wells

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.

~ Bernard Barton

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

~ William Ernest Hocking

Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

~ Robert Baden-Powell

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

~ Albert Einstein

A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

~ Benjamin Franklin

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

~ Adam Smith

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

~ Soren Kierkegaard

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

~ Miguel De Unamuno

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

~ Albert Camus