Man Quotes

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever we may do, excess will always keep its place in the heart of man, in the place where solitude is found. We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.

Albert Camus

Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn't quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?

Orson Scott Card

A homeless guy came up to me on the street, said he hadn't eaten in four days. I told him, Man, I wish I had your willpower.

Rodney Dangerfield

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

Oscar Wilde

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Voltaire

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

George Orwell

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Ambrose Bierce

Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.

Christopher Hitchens

Can the man say, Fiat lux, Let there be light; and out of chaos make a world? Precisely as there is light in himself, will he accomplish this.

Thomas Carlyle

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Jane Austen

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

George Bernard Shaw

This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Samuel Johnson

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.

Eugene Delacroix

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religion is not provided to us by revelation, it doesn't come from the heavens, it doesn't come from the beyond, it doesn't come from the divine. It's man-made. And it shows. It shows very well - that religion is created, invented, imposed by a species half a chromosome away from the chimpanzee.

Christopher Hitchens

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

Victor Hugo

He who is looking for wisdom is already wise; and he who thinks that he has found wisdom is a stupid man.

Leo Tolstoy

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

George Bernard Shaw