Man Quotes

Nafai knew the rule: when a man acts like a child, he's boyish, and everyone's delighted; when a boy acts the same way, he's childish, and everyone tells him to be a man.

Orson Scott Card

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Samuel Johnson

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

Jane Austen

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Oscar Wilde

They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

Stephen King

Man is the cruelest animal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Thomas Jefferson

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

George Bernard Shaw

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

Plato

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.

William Shakespeare

All that is limited by form, semblance, sound, color is called object. Among them all, man alone is more than an object. Though, like objects, he has form and semblance, He is not limited to form. He is more. He can attain to formlessness. When he is beyond form and semblance, beyond this and that, where is the comparison with another object? Where is the conflict? What can stand in his way? He will rest in his eternal place which is no-place. He will be hidden in his own unfathomable secret. His nature sinks to its root in the One. His vitality, his power hide in secret Tao.

Chuang Tzu

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

Victor Hugo

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison... the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor.

Henry David Thoreau

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

Ambrose Bierce

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

Plato

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Kurt Vonnegut

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.

Stephen King

Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.

Albert Einstein