Man Quotes

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.

Aristotle

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.

Leo Tolstoy

My old man never liked me. He gave me my allowance in traveler's checks.

Rodney Dangerfield

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

Victor Hugo

Men suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Plato

I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.

David Cronenberg

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

Abraham Lincoln

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

George Orwell

Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?

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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

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The human body is a peculiar device, pat it on the back and the head swells.

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It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

George Eliot

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

Charles Dickens

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Victor Hugo

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Thomas Carlyle