Man Quotes

Cardio is a nice way to start the morning, man. Whether you sit on the bike for half an hour or throw on two jumpers and just sweat, it's good to get up, get the body active, put on your headphones, and just pedal away.

~ Anthony Joshua

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

~ Samuel Johnson

I don't have a trainer. I have what I call 'the poor man's workout and the rich man's diet.' I run for 1 hour every day and do 500 sit-ups and 1000 crunches, and I lift weights at the Y for 28 bucks a month, even if it's 3 in the morning.

~ T. J. Thyne

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

~ Bram Stoker

I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.

~ Jean Harlow

When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.

~ Joe Slovo

Our friend, Timothy J. Russert, was a man who awoke every morning as if he had just won the lottery the day before. He was determined to take full advantage of his good fortune that he couldn't quite believe and share it with everyone around him.

~ Tom Brokaw

It's man's work. My dad was gone at 4:30 in the morning and home at 8 at night, and he worked underground, and the last mine he worked in was 26 inches high in a lot of places. He liked the engineering of it - he liked the moving the earth and being able to extract something and put it back for reclamation. He enjoyed the whole process.

~ Chris Stapleton

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

~ Jonathan Swift

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

~ Anthony Trollope

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

~ George Steiner

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

~ Roy H. Williams

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

~ Mark Kennedy

A man of genius makes no mistakes his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

~ James Joyce

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

~ Spiro T. Agnew

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

~ Simone Weil

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

~ Henri Bergson

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

~ Diogenes

Man knows so much and does so little.

~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

~ James Allen

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

~ John Steinbeck

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.

~ Larry Ellison

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

~ Ed Parker

There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's role: masculinity, sensitivity, intelligence. In some people, there's a little too much in the mix of one or the other.

~ Alec Baldwin

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

~ Oscar Wilde

Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.

~ Annie Besant

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

~ Ezra Pound

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

~ Konrad Adenauer

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.

~ Edward Thorndike

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

~ Rémy De Gourmont

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

~ Aldous Huxley

Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.

~ Victor Hugo

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness. Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.

~ John Burroughs

Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.

~ John Burroughs

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

~ Virginia Woolf

Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.

~ Annie Besant