Man Quotes

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

Samuel Johnson

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

Bertrand Russell

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Aristotle

The man is making preparations for a year, and does not know that he will die before evening. And I remembered God's second saying, Learn what is not given to man. 'What dwells in man I already knew. Now I learnt what is not given him. It is not given to man to know his own needs.

Leo Tolstoy

When I was a kid, I never went to Disneyland. My ol' man told me Mickey Mouse died in a cancer experiment.

Rodney Dangerfield

It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.

Orson Scott Card

No man can bear to live with a woman who speaks nothing but the truth to him.

Orson Scott Card

If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him? Is it just my pride that's wounded?

Orson Scott Card

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Thomas Jefferson

Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility.

Bertrand Russell

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

George Orwell

It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.

Orson Scott Card

It can be said of him, when he departed he took a man's life along with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of time.

Thomas Carlyle

A man is related to all nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

Victor Hugo

It was Trout's fantasy that somebody would be outraged by the footprints. This would give him the opportunity to reply grandly, What is it that offends you so? I am simply using man's first printing press. You are reading a bold and universal headline which says,'I am here, I am here, I am here.

Kurt Vonnegut

What a childhood I had. Once on my birthday my ol' man gave me a bat. The first day I played with it, it flew away.

Rodney Dangerfield

The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man will experience the value feeling of the true in different things than will the overman.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

I do not like that man. I must get to know him better.

Abraham Lincoln