Top 100 As A Man Quotes
#1. As soon as a man stopped wandering
and stood still an looked around him,
he found a god in that place.
Eudora Welty
#2. So I will just say it. I cannot love you as a man loves a woman. I am so sorry if I have presumed what is not true or have taken liberties with your sentiments. I hope you can forgive me.
Shannon Hale
#3. It was those eyes as much as anything that had earned him his reputation as a man to be reckoned with. When he stared at a person, clear and unwavering, men grew uncomfortable. Women positively shivered.
Julia Quinn
#4. Impression is a great phenomenon in itself: as a man thinketh so is he.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#6. Woody Allen said that 95% of history is explained as a man trying to impress a woman. And that's true in my life.
Mitt Romney
#7. In the 18th century, if women wanted to travel and they dressed as a man, people would not look twice. Your clothes said everything. Also there were masters and servants swapping clothes. You could be anything, your clothes told everything!
Vivienne Westwood
#8. As a man's knowledge grows, and his power increases, the road he takes grows ever narrower, until at last he does only and wholly what he must.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#9. If we had had the privilege of giving hospitality to a Ho Chi Minh, with what respect and interest we would have served him, as a man of vision, as a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders.
Dorothy Day
#11. Aren't all marriages kind of gay? As a man, when you get marries, essentially what you're saying is 'I will never touch another woman as long as I live, now let's put jewellery on each other and dance
Jimmy Kimmel
#12. You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he *must *do ...
Ursula K. Le Guin
#13. We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#14. It took me a long time to get to where I'm at, in my career and as a man. I was going through my trials and tribulations in life, and it gave me the strength to tackle things that have come my way.
Bernie Mac
#15. He turned to Miss Minerva. "I'm relying on you, at any rate. You've got a good mind. Anybody can see that."
"Thank you," she said.
"As good as a man's," he added.
"Oh, now you've spoiled it!
Earl Derr Biggers
#16. First of all, as a man the most important thing you have in your life now is your child that you're carrying. That's it. Everything else comes second; personally, for me, other than your relationship with God and your wife.
Allan Houston
#17. I took one thing to heart that I heard from Sidney Poitier in 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.' And it resonated so much with me. He says: 'Dad, you always looked at yourself as a black man. I look at myself as a man.'
Dennis Haysbert
#19. Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#20. Years ago we hardly had anything to eat. Now I earn more money and I see every opponent as a man that tries to put me back to that poorer period. That man has to be eliminated.
Fedor Emelianenko
#21. As soon as a man begins to make excuses, the time has come when he might be doing that from which he excuses himself.
George MacDonald
#22. Dominique Strauss-Kahn has always had a reputation as a man who cares for women, and even a libertine ... There is a vast difference between [that] reputation ... and the charge which he is the object, which is a serious, very serious crime or sex crime. This is something very different.
Elisabeth Guigou
#23. I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.
Katharine Hepburn
#24. I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.
Jeremy Renner
#25. Of course, I should have got rid of you. I should have shaken you out of my life as a man shakes from his raiment a thing that has stung him.
Oscar Wilde
#26. Once I looked in the mirror and decided this is who I am, and I'm not scared of who I am, and I'm not scared that I can't be like you, and I'm good with just doing me, that's when I found myself, as a man.
Kendrick Lamar
#27. Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
A. N. Wilson
#29. And I saw then again, and for good, what I had always been afraid to see, and had pretended not to see in him: that he was a woman as well as a man. Any need to explain the sources of that fear vanished with the fear; what I was left with was, at last, acceptance of him as he was.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#30. I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from the cross. I look at myself as a man carrying a message of hope.
Sam Childers
#31. As a man is, so is his God; therefore God was so often an object of mockery.
[Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott,
Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#32. A woman's life in the orchestra is not as long as a man's; she is just not as good at 60 as a man is at 60.
Zubin Mehta
#33. As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure
Orison Swett Marden
#34. In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
Carla Bruni
#35. Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#36. If he cannot be tried for his failures as a king, let him be tried for his failures as a man.
Leigh Bardugo
#37. Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.
R. Scott Bakker
#38. The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
Candace Bushnell
#39. We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.
Philibert Joseph Roux
#40. As a man begins to understand the sacrifices he must make to live the life he dreams of, he often loses his courage for such a life.
Josie Sigler
#41. I sent my Christmas wishes to him, but he didn't answer. He's the world's best coach, but as a man he still has to learn manners and respect.
Mario Balotelli
#42. I'm glad I stayed in school four years. It matured me as a man and as a basketball player.
Josh Howard
#43. A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.
Edward Abbey
#44. I was raised by all women. I had no men in my life; it was my mom, my sister, and my grandmother. I've never identified as a man. I've always either felt like a boy or something else. I feel really uncomfortable thinking that, technically, I'm supposed to be a man, because I don't feel like one.
Zachary Cole Smith
#45. Pretend I am as capable as a man? Please, sir, do not value me so little!
Kerri Maniscalco
#46. When General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as "a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows", he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.
Randall Jarrell
#47. In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.
Raekwon
#48. As a man, I've learned that there is nothing easier in married life than pleasing your wife with your cooking.
Robert Breault
#49. Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.
Randall Jarrell
#50. Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it.
Red Adair
#51. I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing.
Robert Bork
#52. A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two-foot pump in a hundred-foot well. He cannot touch bottom at all.
Henry Ward Beecher
#53. The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
H.L. Mencken
#54. The East and the West in the spring of the world shall blend / As a man and a woman that plight / Their troth in the warm spring night.
Richard Hovey
#55. For me, it was like this: pronounced antipathy to conversing about matters of practical life, the future, dates, politics. You are fixated on the intellectual sphere as a man possessed may be fixated on the sexual: under its spell, sucked into it.
Walter Benjamin
#56. For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult.
Charlotte Whitton
#57. I wish to have no status as a man. I am equally content to be a worm or a rat, and am only glad that I am not becuase they have such a rough time without the pleasure of painting.
Stanley Spencer
#58. By a lie, a man ... annihilates his dignity as a man.
Immanuel Kant
#59. He knows that as long as a man keeps his faith in God and in himself nothing can permanently defeat him.
Wilferd Peterson
#60. I knew, and every black man there knew, that I, as a man now white once again, could say the things that needed saying but would be rejected if black men said them.
John Howard Griffin
#62. A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot.
Laozi
#63. Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
Anonymous
#64. As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.
Bob Marley
#65. So long as a man knows the meaning of fear, he will need the ways and means to defend himself against that fear.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#66. As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#67. For a woman to be taken as seriously as a man she must be three times as effective. Happily, this is not difficult.
Simone de Beauvoir
Gale Martin
#68. I soon found out this much:
terror can be endured so long as a man simply ducks;
but it kills, if a man thinks about it.
Erich Maria Remarque
#69. A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#70. Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#71. I spent a week living as a man. Which was actually, I'm sorry to say, embarrassingly easy for me to do.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#72. He had come to think that so long as a man wants to do right he may go where he can: when he can go no further, then it is not the way.
George MacDonald
#73. She was pretty and, even more, she was smart, and she had a divine figure according to all accounts. He fell in love with her, as a man always falls in love with any attractive woman whom he sees a lot of.
Guy De Maupassant
#74. As long as a man has, he must give. And when he has nothing more, he is free. This freedom is far nobler than the former giving, for he no longer gives in accident but in essence, and he no longer gives one gift, but all gifts, and he no longer gives to just one man, but to all men.
John Tauler
#75. The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.
Yoshida Kenko
#76. Never allow a man financial stability or well being in society intimidate you as a man
Lawrence Warner
#77. And he has the teacher's fear of being surpassed by the student, the master's dread of having the disciple discredit his work. (Not that I am in any real sense Nemur's student or disciple as Burt is.) I guess Nemur's fear of being revealed as a man walking on stilts among giants is understandable.
Daniel Keyes
#78. Where is the soul? ... I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon as a man's breath leaves his body, the soul flops out like a chicken's head and flies off into space to find a lodgment where there [are] harps and haloes. Too much for me.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#79. Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as stupid as a man can be.
John Smith
#80. Is there such a thing as a man-made stroke? In other words, did someone do this to (Democratic Senator Tim Johnson)? ... I know what this [Republican] party is capable of.
Joy Behar
#81. As a man I'd been a cool customer. As a woman I was a hot tamale.
Barry Webster
#82. I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man ... A tree depicts divinest plan, But God himself lives in a man.
Joyce Kilmer
#83. As long as a man has a golden heart, it does not matter whether he has green blood or blue skin!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#84. Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to whom details matter.
Gay Talese
#85. Probably the greatest challenge and the most difficult thing you will face in mortal life is to learn to control your thoughts. In the Bible it says, as a man "thinketh in his heart, so is he." Those who can control their thoughts have conquered themselves.
Boyd K. Packer
#86. As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#87. But at the heart of character is the ability to restrain our desires. As a man grows in character, he builds the muscles of self-restraint.
Richard E. Simmons III
#88. He entertained these thoughts awkwardly, as a man entertains unexpected guests. Then, as he reached his objective, he pushed these thoughts away, as a man apologizes to his guests, and leaves them, muttering something about a prior engagement.
Neil Gaiman
#89. But don't get me wrong. As far as a man and a woman is concerned, I'm awfully happy there's a thing called sex. It's an extra something God gave us. I see no reason why it shouldn't be in pictures. Healthy, lusty sex is wonderful.
John Wayne
#90. A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.
Alice Hoffman
#91. I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, 'What am I doing? This isn't who I am, as a man or an artist.' I had to overcome people's belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.
Charlie Hunnam
#92. If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.
Mahatma Gandhi
#93. It has always been my ideal in war to eliminate all feelings of hatred and to treat my enemy as an enemy only in battle and to honour him as a man according to his courage.
Ernst Junger
#94. Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?
Yukio Mishima
#95. 'Wild at Heart' simply came out of my journey as a man and then my work with men.
John Eldredge
#96. A woman has just as much right in this world as a man and can get along in it just as well if she puts her mind to it.
Carole Lombard
#97. It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#98. She was utterly unlike what she had been when he first saw her. Both morally and physically she had changed for the worse. [ ... ] He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.
Leo Tolstoy
#99. He's going to jail. He can't see. He can't hear. He can't take a leak that lasts under fifteen minutes. But he has an erection and all the other problems are small change. Next time around I'm coming back as a man. Priorities are clearly defined. Life is simple.
Janet Evanovich
#100. As a man thinketh
Our remedies in ourselves do lie
Which we ascribe to heaven
William Shakespeare
