Top 100 Man For Quotes
#1. Each man for himself in that desert of egoism which is called life.
Stendhal
#2. Man's life is the standard of morality, but your own life is its purpose . If existence on earth is your goal, you must choose your actions and values by the standard of that which is proper to man - for the purpose of preserving, fulfilling and enjoying the irreplaceable value which is your life.
Ayn Rand
#3. Method Man, for him to offer me the spot as the first Jewish member of the Wu Tang Clan, you know, was an honor.
Josh Peck
#4. There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.
Alexander Pope
#5. We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
Alexander Pope
#7. No. You don't get to call me Izzy, you don't send me letters, you don't follow me into dark corridors and try to save me from rats."
"Trust me, we see a rat, it's every man for himself.
Cassandra Clare
#8. It's everyday for a woman to project a very strong wave of sexual energy through her second attention into a man, for him to assume that the energy he feels is his own.
Frederick Lenz
#9. three hundred trout are required to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, which must consume 27 million grasshoppers, which live off of 1,000 tons of grass."10
Jeremy Rifkin
#10. Think carefully before you issue me a command, Zenobia. For I will do what you tell me, even if I'm the worst possible man for the job.
Libbie Hawker
#11. While we're out shopping this afternoon, maybe we can find a Scottish man for me." Effie waggled her eyebrows. "I know just the size I want.
Vonnie Davis
#12. War strips away the thin veneer applied slap-dash by the institutions of society and shows Man for exactly what he is.
Mark Baker
#13. We praise heroes as though they are rare, and yet we are always ready to blame another man for lack of heroism.
Graham Greene
#14. At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them, only man endeavors to exceed them.
Desiderius Erasmus
#15. If we want the most effective fighting force, we need to pick the most qualified capable man for the job, even if it's a woman.
Martha McSally
#16. I grew up in a pretty gay world - my brother's gay and he's been married to a man for 20 years, which is like 60 in straight-people years.
Kevin Smith
#17. Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.
Helen Rowland
#19. What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whit-
man, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees
with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images,
I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of
your enumerations!
Allen Ginsberg
#20. Trials are not arbitrary. When I speak about them, I am referring to the mindful suffering.Man has come to his present development thanks to his hardships and trials.These are what prepare man for the Coming of Love.
Peter Deunov
#21. Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.
Helmut Schoeck
#22. I am for the largest liberty for the poor man -- for the oppressed.
Lewis Tappan
#23. No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts" and a "Doctor of Philosophy" after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.
Helen Rowland
#24. Humming is the sign of the truly asocial man, for no other sound is at once so soothing and pleasant to its maker and so irritating to any other listener.
Howard McCord
#25. Never blame a man for misfortune, do it yourself
Rapsody
#26. I'm too much a man for hysterics.
Liu, Marjorie M. (2009-01-20). Hunter Kiss: A Companion Novella to The Iron Hunt and Darkness Calls (A Hunter Kiss Novella) (Kindle Locations 355-356). Penguin Group US. Kindle Edition.
Marjorie M. Liu
#27. The most wonderful revenge you can have is by dumping an attractive, vacant man for an uglier one. That way all of his friends can scratch their heads, and for the next year or so wonder why.
Perry Brass
#28. It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.
Jules Renard
#29. I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.
James M. Cain
#30. Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
Zane Grey
#31. God is not supposed to fix the earth, he created man for that.
Sunday Adelaja
#32. They stood either side of him like haunting little genetic bookends. The one thing he'll leave behind, two kids who called another man for help with their homework.
David Louden
#33. Know, Nature's children all divide her care; The fur that warms a monarch, warmed a bear. While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pampered goose: And just as short of reason he must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all.
Alexander Pope
#34. The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
Theodor Adorno
#35. How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.
Grace Metalious
#36. My motivation in life was to be a good enough man for her, worthy of her awesomeness.
Jasinda Wilder
#37. Ransom really looked at the other man for the first time, shook his head, stared again."Holy hell, your eyes are like a fucking viper's."
Venom raised an eyebrow."You have hair prettier than one of Astaad's concubines."
Ransom gave the vampire the finger.
Venom grinned.
Nalini Singh
#38. I wanted to walk beside this man for a long time, and to do that I'd have to be able to be completely myself.
Karen Marie Moning
#39. What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days.
David F. Houston
#40. Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.
Edmond De Goncourt
#41. Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.
Andrew Taylor Still
#42. You can be with a man for twenty years and never really know who he truly is. Then again, you can meet a man and know everything about him in an instant.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#43. The power to Love is God's greatest gift to man, For it never will be taken from the Blessed one who loves.
Khalil Gibran
#44. To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
Homer
#45. I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.
Larry Page
#46. I had taken a bitch's man for way less meaningful purposes, so to take one to spare my life was a no brainer. Leave
Jessica N. Watkins
#47. You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.
Samuel Johnson
#48. The sinner is the gospel's reason for existence. You, my friend, to whom this word now comes, if you are undeserving, ill-deserving, hell-deserving, you are the sort of man for whom the gospel is ordained, and arranged, and proclaimed. God justifieth the ungodly.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#49. I was born on the 5th April 1942. On Good Friday. Round about crucifixion time. Archbishop Ussher, a man for dates, who calculated that the world began on September 27th 4004 BC, says the crucifixion took place at three o'clock in the afternoon on Good Friday in the year 33 AD. I was right on time.
Peter Greenaway
#50. Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming.
Hunter S. Thompson
#51. Weep for a dead man, for he left the light behind; But weep over a fool, for he left intelligence behind.
Anonymous
#52. Coach Lombardi had the nerve to draft me number oneAnd I said I have to repay this man for having the nerve to draft me number one.
Herb Adderley
#53. Even now, when I have time to consider what I've been and what I am, I doubt I comprehend my humanity, if I can claim so grand a word for my own morsel of life. I might as well be a meteor of a man, for all the difference I've made on earth.
Norman Lock
#54. And David saw himself reflected in the Woodsman's eyes, and there he was no longer old but a young man, for a man is always his father's child no matter how old he is or how long they have been apart.
John Connolly
#55. It is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences ... but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life a dimension of beauty.
Milan Kundera
#56. It's me babe... Ain't no other man for you... but me.
Tillie Cole
#58. Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
Honore De Balzac
#59. Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.
Pablo Casals
#60. The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.
Erich Auerbach
#61. Even baldness, when it is only baldness over the forehead (as in his case), is rather becoming than not in a man, for it heightens the head and adds to the intelligence of the face.
Wilkie Collins
#62. You're a terrible man for the blankets, said Kerrigan.
I'm not ashamed to admit that I love my bed, said Byrne. She was my first friend ... She will house me in my last hour and faithfully hold my cold body when I am dead. She will look bereaved when I am gone.
Flann O'Brien
#63. This room is a testimony that there are men who want to be a man for God and a man of God.
Mike Huckabee
#64. If you wanted nothing done at all, Balfour was the man for the job.
Winston Churchill
#65. The order of ... successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of history in the hands of man; for the geological record is the work of God.
Roderick Murchison
#66. Consult, v.t. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on. Contempt, n. The feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.
Ambrose Bierce
#67. In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM.
Rod Taylor
#68. I don't want to only play the leading man for the rest of my career.
Ansel Elgort
#69. For Baudelaire, man's poetic fate is to be the mirror of immensity; or even more exactly, immensity becomes conscious of itself, through man. Man for Baudelaire is a vast being.
Gaston Bachelard
#71. She's wonderful. Tell her I've never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you."
Waddington, smiling, translated the question.
"She says I'm good."
"As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue," Kitty mocked.
W. Somerset Maugham
#72. Well, Brekker, it's obvious you only deal in half-truths and outright lies, so you're clearly the man for the job.
Leigh Bardugo
#73. I don't think I really like myself. And I blame the Old Man for this.
Barack Obama
#74. I'd be worried if I was put in the same category as Michael Bubl I'm trying to sound like a young man, for starters.
Jamie Cullum
#75. Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general senseand the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reasons lie not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.
Anton Chekhov
#76. I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.
Robin Williams
#77. You taught me once, Lorn. I'm a better man for it. But now it's my turn to teach you. Men can change. Sometimes they have to fall. Sometimes they have to leap.
Pierce Brown
#78. I know his death could have been avoided with a doctor who was really on top of it. He had so much life in him. It was wrong. I played my way through that first show and did "Old Man" for Ben (Keith) at the end. I looked over to my right and he was out there somewhere, but not next to me anymore.
Neil Young
#79. The church must seek to conquer not merely every man for Christ, but also the whole of man.
J. Gresham Machen
#80. I held myself still, hardly daring to breathe. What was happening to me? Now that I was dressed as a woman, was I beginning to feel like one too? Perhaps I'd acted the part of a man for so long that I'd forgotten what it was like to even be a woman.
Jody Hedlund
#81. Our tendency today is to assume that we can eliminate the authority of husband over wife and yet retain the authority of husband-wife over the children. The Bible is more realistic about marriage than modern man, for the truth is that in disobeying the one hierarchy we destroy the other.
Charles F. Stanley
#82. Hate not a man for his tardiness for the only thing that is on time is; time it self.
Xela Ffonrims
#83. As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.
Donna Woolfolk Cross
#84. He had that extra four or five inches of neck which disqualifies a man for high honors in the beauty competition
P.G. Wodehouse
#85. Without compassion for a fellow man, for great splendors of our Sister, Mother Earth the humankind will never reconcile with itself.
Vinko Vrbanic
#86. In a way, for women, marriage was like an extended babysitting gig. The woman was committing herself to coddling and watching over a grown man for the rest of her life.
Bart Hopkins
#87. Once I mocked a man for words that I heard him whisper to you. No more. For Callie, I, too, will love you until my dying day!
Heather Graham
#88. One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass.
G. Tyler Miller
#89. The desire forcontinuity of being-loved-alone seems to me "the error bred in the bone" of man. For "there is no one-and-only, as a friend of mine once said in a similar discussion, "there are just one-and-only moments.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#90. You only get one shot in this life. So let me do all the good I can for my fellow man. For I will not pass this way again.
Anonymous
#91. The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?
Anna Quindlen
#92. The great unthankfulness, contempt of God's word, and wilfulness of the world, make me fear that the divine light will soon cease to shine on man, for God's word has ever had its certain course.
Martin Luther
#93. It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things, in order to be able to deduce from them general rules, which might be applicable elsewhere.
Rene Descartes
#94. It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.
Ovid
#95. Praie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can.Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all.
John Heywood
#96. You looked at me like you saw something good. You made me remember everything I loved about you, before I'd fallen. And how could I ever damn such a beautiful creature? I couldn't. That look made me want to be a better man, for you
Jillian Peery
#97. But the Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if 'Thou mayest' - it is also true that 'Thou mayest not.
John Steinbeck
#98. Any man for her had better be well-dressed, well-groomed, and well-hung, and if he couldn't get her off at least twice with his mouth, she wouldn't return his calls. Couldn't imagine why she was thirty-nine and still single.
Lauren Gallagher
#99. If you don't like it, change it, we said, to each other and to ourselves. And so we would change for the man, for another one. Change, we were sure, was for the better always. We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.
Margaret Atwood
#100. She wanted the man who held his infant daughter in his arms with fatherly affection, the man who could talk to her for hours and hours on a blanket in the grass,laid out under the trees.that man for some reason was out of reach.
Julianne MacLean
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