Top 100 Every Man Quotes
#1. Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.
Erwin Schrodinger
#2. It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
Albert Einstein
#3. Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#4. The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.
G.K. Chesterton
#6. Every man, woman, and child on this earth is a wandering pilgrim in his or her own way - each searching for a belonging place. That sense of belonging is found only as we care for one another.
Seth Adam Smith
#7. There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.
Murray Kempton
#8. Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard
#9. Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.
Brooks Atkinson
#10. If every man who passed an unjust judgment on his fellow should be condemned, how many judges would be found so vain and foolish as to review and condemn their Maker's work?
Clarence Darrow
#11. Otaguro's bosom heaved with an ineffable surge of joy. "Every man is fighting," he murmured. "Every man.
Yukio Mishima
#12. Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
Rene Descartes
#13. The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.
Franz Schubert
#14. Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for evil, and it is in the nature of things that he cannot really improve himself without in some degree improving other men.
Charles Dickens
#15. All this is only fooling, for if it is true that every man must work for his own salvation, then all the prophecies about the future of the world are only valuable and allowable as a recreation, or a joke, like playing bowls or cards.
Soren Kierkegaard
#17. I think every man a woman meets brings with him a kernel of truth about the concentric notions of men. So when they ask if my stories are true. I laugh since it would imply that i used every man in my life as my muse.
Crystal Evans
#18. The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.
E. V. Lucas
#19. For history is a pontoon bridge. Every man walks and works at its building end, and has come as far as he has over the pontoons laid by others he may never have heard of.
Wallace Stegner
#20. Unlike the laws of physics, which are free of inconsistencies, every man-made order is packed with internal contradictions. Cultures are constantly trying to reconcile these contradictions, and this process fuels change.
Yuval Noah Harari
#21. Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two
Hugh B. Brown
#22. For every man, there is a way to happiness in every point of his life! The door to happiness is always open; there is no such a thing to miss the entry! All points are entry points to happiness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#23. Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.
Euripides
#24. Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.
Fernando Pessoa
#25. Wave of sound swept over the ring as every man in the convocation shouted together.
Wilbur Smith
#26. Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Thosewho violate it, may be cunning, but they are not able. Lies and perfidy are the refuge of fools and cowards.
Lord Chesterfield
#27. Though logic-choppers rule the town,
And every man and maid and boy
Has marked a distant object down,
An aimless joy is a pure joy ...
William Butler Yeats
#28. They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice ... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#29. Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#31. Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
Henry Van Dyke
#32. We are the Edema Ruh, and the thing we value most every man possesses. You can tell us your story.
Patrick Rothfuss
#33. That was the trouble with the clans; they had an absurd notion that every man's voice should be heard in council, so they argued about EVERYTHING, endlessly.
George R R Martin
#34. We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend the fundamental assumption that all men are created equal to every, man woman and child on this planet. And we need the humility to recognize that we cannot do it alone.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#35. Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches.
Hans Christian Andersen
#36. Every man is himself a class; every hour carries its new challenge.
W.B.Yeats
#37. Every man - in the development of his own personality - has the right to form his own beliefs and opinions. Hence, suppression of belief, opinion and expression is an affront to the dignity of man, a negation of man's essential nature.
[Toward a General Theory of the First Amendment (1963)]
Thomas I. Emerson
#39. To put to rest any doubts you might have ... I'm jealous of every man who comes within ten feet of you. I'm jealous of the clothes on your skin and the air you breathe. I'm jealous of every moment you spend out of my sight
Lisa Kleypas
#40. Every man is free to push the mountains, but mountains won't move with these pushes.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#41. I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end ... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice.
John F. Kennedy
#42. I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try.
Chill Wills
#43. Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
Thomas Browne
#45. Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.
John Bright
#46. Our democracy is dependent on people who passionately cherish the ideals of a democracy. Every man is created equal with an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's a wonderful idea, and it takes people who cherish that idea to be actively involved in the process.
George Takei
#47. Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
Brendan Behan
#48. The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#49. You're a woman, use it; bring every man you meet to his motherfucking knees.
-My mother
Unknown
#50. To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.
Aristotle.
#51. To write about history or language is supposed to be within the reach of every man. To write about natural science is allowed to be within the reach only of those who have mastered the subjects on which they write.
Edward Augustus Freeman
#52. Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.
Immanuel Kant
#53. Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#54. Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson."
"Lake and Palmer?"
"Ralph and Waldo.
Louise Penny
#55. For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.
Plato
#56. The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.
George Best
#57. The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle. It is always his weapon of personal safety in an emergency, and for many it is the primary weapon of offence and defense. Expertness in its use cannot be over emphasized.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#58. Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known anxiety or by sinking under it. He therefore who has leaned rightly to be in anxiety has learned the most important thing.
Soren Kierkegaard
#59. A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
Samuel Butler
#60. Varied are the ideas of what constitutes "success," e.g. money, position, power, achievement, honours, and the like. But these are not open to every man-nor do they bring what is real success, namely, happiness.
Robert Baden-Powell
#61. The purpose of God and the power of God is available for every man.
G. Campbell Morgan
#62. For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.
Thomas Huxley
#64. Nearly all people stand in great horror of annihilation, and yet to give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself. Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#66. Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar power of understanding the will and spirit of God, is only a silent working of the inner man.
Friedrich Schleiermacher
#67. If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.
Felix Frankfurter
#68. Take my advice, don't appreciate any man too highly. In the book of every man's life there is a page which he would wish to keep turned down.
Richard Marsh
#69. We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
Jacob Bronowski
#70. Every man's measurement is determined by his responses when he is on his knees before God.
Dr. J. Otis Yoder
#71. The future promises us all our very own Truman Shows and when every man and woman is a star the spectacle becomes auto- cannibalizing; the audience forced to watch itself due to lack of spectators
Dean Cavanagh
#73. Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#74. I think every woman, maybe every man, looks in the mirror and says, 'Oh my God, there's a wrinkle.' So we're all in the same boat.
Cheryl Tiegs
#75. Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
Daniel Webster
#76. We were young then, and the West was young, with the land broad and bright before us. We knew, whatever the truth was, that every horse could be ridden, every man whipped, every girl loved.
Louis L'Amour
#78. Explain yourself!" he commanded.
"Isn't that rather much for a man to ask of a woman?"
"I don't know. I have no experience of women. In the abstract, it seems to me that every man has a
right to some explanation from the woman who has ruined his life." (page 90)
Max Beerbohm
#79. Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously ... He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.
Pope John Paul II
#80. It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
Woodrow Wilson
#81. Every man should be content to mind his own business.
Aesop
#82. In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.
Honore De Balzac
#83. It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#84. You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. - VICTOR HUGO
Eric Greitens
#85. I have believed the best of every man, and find that to believe it is enough to make a bad man show him at his best or even a good man swing his lantern higher.
W.B.Yeats
#86. Every man is to be had one way or another and every woman almost anyway.
Lord Chesterfield
#87. Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
Katarina Witt
#88. Every man must settle down once in a lifetime.
Irving Stone
#89. Every man knows about a particular body part that often seems to have a mind of its own. And every woman knows how absurd men become when that is the body part they allow to influence their choices and decisions.
Neale Donald Walsch
#90. Our earth is degenerate in these latter days; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book, and the end of the world is evidently approaching." - From an ancient Assyrian tablet.
Sidney Homer
#91. Not every man or woman sailing down the river will be a figure of force or significance. Some are merely in the boat with all of us.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#92. 'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#93. Were people to mingle only with those of like mind, every man would be an insulate being." Thomas Jefferson
John Ferling
#94. Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.
Bob Marley
#95. Every man has a devouring passion in his heart, as every fruit has its worm.
Alexander Dumas
#97. So to every man, soon or late, comes envy of the fly, with all the long joys of summer before it.
Samuel Beckett
#98. Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
Elbert Hubbard
#99. There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man ...
Blaise Pascal
#100. Tis as if the blow to his head is what Colin needed to set himself to rights."
Effie laughed. "I wish it were that way with every man. Then all we women would need do is carry around a wooden club.
Amy Jarecki
