Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Man.
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
Plato
I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
Blaise Pascal
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
Epictetus
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.
Thomas Carlyle
My friend was of opinion that when a man of rank appeared in that character, he deserved to have his merit handsomely allowed.
Samuel Johnson
Vornehmer ist's, sich Unrecht zu geben als Recht zu behalten, sonderlich wenn man Recht hat. Nur muss man reich genug dazu sein.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
Albert Camus
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
Thomas Jefferson
What the White man had won with so much blood and dishonesty was not the living land of the Red man, but the corpse of that land. It was decay that the White man won. It would turn to dust in his hands, Alvin knew it.
Orson Scott Card
Man is a tool-using animal...Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
A dreamer, a good man, a kind man who cared less for his plan than for the people in it.
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Almost nobody's competent, Paul. It's enough to make you cry to see how bad most people are at their jobs. If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in the kingdom of the blind.
Kurt Vonnegut
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Benjamin Franklin
There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
