Man Quotes

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

Louis L'Amour

I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.

John Buchan

I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Christie Brinkley

It is easier to denature plutonium than it is to denature the evil spirit of man.

Albert Einstein

Deep in the man sits fast his fate To mould his fortunes, mean or great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People say that God created mankind after his image. This means that man created God after his image.

Leo Tolstoy

The trap had a ghastly perfection

Stephen King

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

William Shakespeare

It is so rare to meet with a man out-doors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands.

Henry David Thoreau

I for one find a casual destruction of a man's life even more repugnant than a determined one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards

Andrei Tarkovsky

I have always disliked being a man. The whole idea of manhood in America is pitiful, in my opinion. This version of masculinity is a little like having to wear an ill-fitting coat for one's entire life (by contrast, I imagine femininity to be an oppressive sense of nakedness).

Paul Theroux

... life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole...

Jane Addams

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Samuel Johnson

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Samuel Johnson

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Samuel Johnson

No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are orators, politicians, and eloquent men, by the thousand; but the speaker has not yet opened his mouth to speak who is capable of settling the much-vexed questions of the day.

Henry David Thoreau

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

James Allen

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson