Top 100 A Man Is Quotes
#2. If a man is a beast, he's a beast in his heart, and that's not the kind of heart that beats in you.
Dean Koontz
#3. Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.
Ayn Rand
#5. When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.
Robertson Davies
#6. You know a man is interesting when you forget to notice how expensive - or cheap - his clothes are.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#7. What is asserted by a man is an opinion; what is asserted by a woman is opinionated. A woman with ideas and the ability to express them is something of a social embarrassment, like an unhousebroken pet.
Marya Mannes
#8. Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.
Henry Ford
#9. A man is only as faithful as his options.
Chris Rock
#10. A man is defined many ways. One of those is the woman he picks to be at his side.
Kristen Ashley
#11. Proving by fire is a way of testing for silver and gold, But a man is tested by the mouth of those who praise him.
Anonymous
#13. Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is of the essence of leadership.
Theodore White
#14. Do you think a man is the only creature with whom one may fall in love?
Mary MacLane
#15. Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering - that is a fact.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#16. A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they are withered and dry. Therefore, the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death, and the gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.
Laozi
#17. A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
Joseph Conrad
#19. Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.
Craig Clevenger
#20. A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.
Edgard Varese
#22. Generally, when a man is rabidly for one cause, and then is just as rabidly for another cause, it is not because he loves the cause: it is because he loves the rabies
Paul Collins
#23. Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
W. H. Auden
#24. To be a man is to bring together that which you should be and that which you are. Deception is darkness.
Brent Weeks
#25. A man is just as sensitive as a woman because we are all human.
Terraine Francois
#26. A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.
Ayn Rand
#28. Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.
Mikhail Bakunin
#29. Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.
Andy Griffith
#30. A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
G.K. Chesterton
#31. When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power over himself and over others. He throws away time in which he might have gained the end he desires. The is no time for anger in the world. - The Ancient One
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#32. In a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring, gracious, emotional, intuitive, attractive consumer of goods.
Toni Cade Bambara
#33. To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded. Here we are, docile under your gaze; from our side you have nothing more to fear; no acts of violence, no words of defiance, not even a look of judgment.
Primo Levi
#34. A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.
Whittaker Chambers
#35. A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.
Henry Ward Beecher
#36. Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels.
Saul Bellow
#37. But Finn was like no one else. He could be funny, teasing, informative all at once. I was discovering that smart, engaged dialogue with a man is extremely erotic. Cleverness is an aphrodisiac.
Jane Lotter
#38. The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.
Henry Morton Stanley
#39. The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.
David Mamet
#40. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore
#41. If a woman-in-a-man's body goes after a man, is she attracted to the same or the opposite sex? If a man-in-a -woman's body wants a woman, is he a lesbian or straight? Prejudice is only cowardice in the face of complexity.
Jay Lemke
#43. A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.
Arthur Miller
#44. The more highminded a man is the more easily is his anger appeased.
Ovid
#45. All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.
Samuel Richardson
#46. Among the Conscious, a man is only worth his latest reading.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#47. If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
Sally Struthers
#48. A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he becomes a crank.
Walter Hadwen
#49. The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.
Ramana Maharshi
#50. Moved by deep love, a man is courageous.
And with frugality, a man becomes generous,
And he who does not desire to be ahead of the
world becomes the leader of the world.
Lao-Tzu
#51. Even a man accused of the worst act of terrorism ever committed in this country - especially such a man - is entitled to the best possible defense. This concept is a cornerstone of our justice system.
Stephen Jones
#52. Time does not heal all wounds; if a man is not careful, time erases wounds. Then what is he left with? The cold and the silence.
Doug Rice
#53. A woman's love for a man is half animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him.
Jed Rubenfeld
#54. It's characteristic of this judicial system that a man is condemned not only when he's innocent but also in ignorance.
Franz Kafka
#55. The greatest power over a man is his desire to please a particular woman.
Jeff Wheeler
#57. A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.
Mary Renault
#58. There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.
Socrates
#59. No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#60. A consequence of boredom is that a man is forced to look either to the future or the past, or sideways into his imagination.
Mark Lawrence
#61. A man is what he is on his knees before God, and nothing more.
Robert M
#62. The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow.
Thomas Merton
#63. The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.
Vaclav Havel
#64. One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.
Bret Harte
#65. A man is most happy when he is most perfect, and he is most perfect when all his faculties are proportionately and harmoniously developed. Thus developed, nature and art and society supply him with a thousand sources of enjoyment.
Joseph P. Bradley
#66. What may intimidate a man is a woman who thinks with her mind before she feels with her heart. Nevertheless what determines the strength in the man is his ability to accept one when he sees one.
Criss Jami
#67. If a man is not sure of his future, he should consciously adjust his thinking.
Duop Chak Wuol
#68. A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.
Baruch Spinoza
#69. I know of no case in which you are to have a judicial proceeding, by which a man is to be deprived of any part of his property, without his having an opportunity of being heard.
Bayley
#70. The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.
D.H. Lawrence
#71. In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
Immanuel Kant
#72. What will always be better than a man, is a
Gentleman.
Pontius Joseph
#73. If you act like a lady and think like a man, is your man supposed to act like a man and think like a lady? #BeWhoGodMadeYou
A.H. Carlisle III
#74. If I want to define myself, I first have to say, "I am a woman"; all other assertions will arise from this basic truth. A man never begins by positing himself as an individual of a certain sex: that he is a man is obvious.
Simone De Beauvoir
#75. You know about innards? The trick they play on tramps in the country? They stuff an old wallet with putrid chicken innards. Well, take it from me, a man is just like that, except that he's fatter and hungrier and can move around, and inside there's a dream.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#76. My favourite smell on a man is Lynx and Marc Jacobs.
Abbey Clancy
#77. Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
#78. In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.
Walter Savage Landor
#79. If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor ... Also
somewhat inconsistently
blessed are the poor!
George Bernard Shaw
#80. When a man is physically present but emotionally absent, a girl's heart can feel quite hollow and helpless. This is true whether that man is her father, her husband, or even a man whom she deeply respects.
Lysa TerKeurst
#81. You know, I used to sweat sometimes when I was digging. My rheumatism would pull at my leg, and I would damn myself for a slave. And now, do you know, I'd like to spade and spade. It's beautiful work. A man is free when he is using a spade. And besides, who is going to prune my trees when I am gone?
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#82. Oh, my friend, have I not said to you all along that I have no proofs. It is one thing to know that a man is guilty, it is quite another matter to prove him so. And, in this case, there is terribly little evidence. That is the whole trouble.
Agatha Christie
#83. A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.
Criss Jami
#84. A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind ... he will need only six feet of earth.
Josephus Daniels
#85. A man is a failure who goes through life earning nothing but money.
Charles A. Beard
#86. For some women, a man is their whole meal. For me, life is a full meal and a man is just the hot sauce. If a man wants to be my whole meal, I say, 'That's nice, baby, but right now, I'm already full.
Lisa Nicole Carson
#87. When a man is to travel into a far country ... one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a bundle of staves would be troublesome. Thus a competency of these outward things may happily help us in the way to heaven, whereas abundance may be hurtful.
Richard Sibbes
#88. I take his hand in mine, running my fingers over the palm. His hands are lovely and lean, and I can't help thinking about those hands on my body. The sexiest part of a man is his hands.
Candace Bushnell
#89. To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
#90. As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.
Sidney Poitier
#91. To the extent that a man is untrue to the law of his being and does not rise to personality, he has failed to realize his life's meaning. Fortunately,
C. G. Jung
#92. Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.
Abe Fortas
#93. Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Don Marquis
#94. Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
Thomas Carlyle
#95. I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse..
Mark Twain
#96. MRS. ARBUTHNOT. When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also. LORD
Oscar Wilde
#97. A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#98. A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is a pitiable shred. Yet together, light and dark, they make a whole.
Jane Yolen
#100. When a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.
Nicholas Sparks
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