Man Quotes

Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else.

George Weinberg

The self-taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers;

Mark Twain

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

Otto Weininger

Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost...perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that precious little fragment as well.

Philip K. Dick

Skupljanje hrane nesumnjivo je bilo na prvom mjestu ženskih dužnosti budu?i da je taj zadatak održavao pleme na životu. Ni u jednom se trenutku pretpovijesne žene s djecom ili bez nje nisu oslanjale na svoje partnere, lovce, za nabavku hrane.

Rosalind Miles

When you look for a man- what you want to look for is a man with the heart of a poor boy and the mind of a conqueror.

C. JoyBell C.

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.

Alexander Pope

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

Max Frisch

A man should not risk his life for beauty alone, Kiall, for that fades. You might as well risk it for a rose. Think on it.

David Gemmell

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

Bruce Feirstein

Let every man in mankind's frailty Consider his last day; and let none Presume on his good fortune until he find Life, at his death, a memory without pain.

Sophocles

The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.

H. L. Mencken

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Samuel Johnson

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

Oscar Wilde

A man is to be cheated into passion,but reasoned into truth.

John Dryden

Stowed away in a Montreal lumber room The Discobolus standeth and turneth his face to the wall; Dusty, cobweb-covered, maimed and set at naught, Beauty crieth in an attic and no man regardeth: O God! O Montreal!

Samuel Butler (novelist)

It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Charles Darwin

Not from without us, only from within, Comes or can ever come upon us light Whereby the soul keeps ever truth in sight. No truth, no strength, no comfort man may win, No grace for guidance, no release from sin, Save of his own soul's giving.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your own expression, manufactured man? What sort of a manufacture is that? Where is it exercised? when? why? how?

Cicero

No thyng ys to man so dere As wommanys love yn gode manere. A gode womman is mannys blys.

Robert Mannyng