Man Quotes

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

~ Kenneth Clark

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

~ Abraham Lincoln

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

~ Nelson Mandela

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

~ William J. H. Boetcker

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

~ Theodor Adorno

I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived. He lived in the 18th century; as you all know, he was an Englishman who was involved in the writing of American Declaration of Independence, the American Constitution, the French Constitution, wrote the great book called 'The Rights of Man' - commercial over.

~ Richard Attenborough

Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. Millions of independents believe marriage is between a man and a woman.

~ Gary Bauer

It's never been a point of reference to look to a man. It's not always a good thing, I suppose, but I think independence is always preferable to dependence.

~ Catherine Tate

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

~ William Cobbett

The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.

~ Norma Shearer

I am so old-fashioned. I've never lived with a man. I am completely about the independence of paying my own rent.

~ Suheir Hammad

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

~ Bruce Lee

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

~ Joyce Meyer

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

~ Will Rogers

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

~ George Bernard Shaw

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

~ Ayn Rand

Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.

~ Émile Durkheim

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

~ Adam Sandler

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

~ Charles Stanley

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

~ George Herbert

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

~ Johnny Carson

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

~ John Owen

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

~ Euripides

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

~ Leo Tolstoy

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

~ Samuel Johnson

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can't be entertained - or people who are afraid. You can't entertain a man who has no food.

~ Bob Marley

The true scientist no longer attempts to disprove the pull of gravity, or the rotation of the earth, or the motion of heavenly bodies, or the sequence of the seasons, or man's need of food and water, or the function of the heart.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.

~ Hans Selye

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

~ Woody Allen

It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.

~ Ivan Pavlov

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

~ Lucretius

I was mischievous. I wasn't bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn't know. I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.

~ Mr. T

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

~ Abraham Maslow

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

~ Thomas Malthus

It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.

~ John Muir

One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.

~ Yotam Ottolenghi