Top 100 Man In Quotes
#1. What is the work of one man, in a rude state of society, being generally that of several in an improved one.
Adam Smith
#2. What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
William James
#3. Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
Torquato Tasso
#4. Tonight go to sleep as though your whole past has been dropped. Die to the past. And in the morning wake up as a new man in a new morning. Don't let the same one who went to bed get up. Let him go to sleep for good.
Osho
#5. Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#6. Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of these taboos. Desire in eroticism is the desire that triumphs over the taboo. It presupposes man in conflict with himself.
Georges Bataille
#7. For years, there was no man in the house when my husband was off on law cases in the Far East. Without writing, I would have been bored and unfaithful, maybe both, and the children would have been hideously over-protected.
Jane Gardam
#8. A man with a gun may hunt a tiger during the day with some expectation of success. Turn out his light, put the man in the jungle at night, surround him with the unknown and all his primitive fears return. Advantage to the tiger.
Alan Dean Foster
#9. He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was.
Melina Marchetta
#10. You who have defeated us say to yourselves that Babylon is fallen and its works have been overturned. I say to you still that man remains on trial, each man in his own dock. Each man is a little war.
Frank Herbert
#11. There is none of my uncle's marks upon you; he taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.
William Shakespeare
#12. We really must keep under control, and pretty strict control, the area within which 'The Man in Whitehall' knows best.
Hugh Gaitskell
#13. Rumors or no, Thomas, if the men strike, we'll see fecal gravity at work like never before. Ain't a man in this room who won't be covered in shit.
Dennis Lehane
#14. Monsieur Man-in-a-hurry, you can find me without running - ME, you understand?
Alexandre Dumas
#15. The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world. He is like a traveler in an inn, perfectly satisfied with the inn and its accommodation, considering it as an inn, but putting quite out of all consideration the idea of making it his home.
Charles Spurgeon
#16. Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#17. A girl's father is the first man in her life, and probably the most influential.
David Jeremiah
#18. In Alien, Sigourney Weaver's role was written for a man. In Salt, Angelina Jolie's role was written for Tom Cruise. These things, when reversed, do prove to be just as exciting and entertaining with women in leading roles.
Olivia Wilde
#19. He would measure the world against the rigid grid of his heart and put each man in charge of a domain no more and no less than his just deserts.
Ken Liu
#20. Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.
Eric Clapton
#21. What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.
Douglas Southall Freeman
#22. I should think it might be difficult to possess a wife whom almost every other man in town has known so intimately, but no doubt True Love Conquers All.
Oakley Hall
#23. I believe man . . . in the same predicament with other animals.
Charles Darwin
#24. One man in a meeting, filled with unbelief, can make a place for the devil to have a seat.
Smith Wigglesworth
#25. Our Lord took on a body like ours and lived as a man in order that those who had refused to recognize Him in His superintendence and capacity of the whole universe might come to recognize from the works He did here below in the body that what dwelled in this body was the Word of God.
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#26. Everything was so desperately noisy in the dark when he was alone. Each time he moved, there was the sound of a crease. He felt like a man in a paper suit.
Markus Zusak
#27. Fishing is still elemental in the most elemental sense of the word - an activity composed of water and air and light and space, all arranged in precarious balance around a central idea of a man in a boat, waiting for a bite.
Samanth Subramanian
#28. The president is the most powerful man in the world, and it would be great to be him because of that, but really, I could only see myself doing it under my own terms. I think I'd make a better dictator.
A.D. Aliwat
#29. Now go put some clothes on. Because if you want me to concentrate, you can't dangle that much naked man in front of me. Vampire or not.
Elizabeth Hunter
#30. Mrs. Koepple, if God wants me to have a man in my life, He's going to have to have him walk right through that front door.
Sam from Second Chances
P.J. Fiala
#31. If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.
Confucius
#32. There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he'll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever.
W. Somerset Maugham
#33. Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.
Will Rogers
#34. It is another of the miraculous things about mankind that there is no pain nor passion that does not radiate to the ends of the earth. Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#35. Energy in itself is a sort of redemption. No wonder we admire Satan. But if the Devil were listless, if he were a pale man in his underwear who watched television by day behind closed venetian blinds - oh if that were the devil I would fear him.
Edmund White
#36. If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble.
Nachman Of Breslov
#37. It's that zombie virus thing that was on the news!" shouted a man in a Starfleet uniform. It was Next Generation command red, but he was running away from the danger, not toward it. Maybe that was how the command crew stayed alive. "They'll eat you if you stay here!" "They
Mira Grant
#38. peoples who have been waiting for their independence for a century, fighting for it for a generation, can afford to sit out a presidential term, or a year or two in the life of an old man in a hurry;
Alistair Horne
#39. I knew that kind of thinking was paranoid, but after the wacky crap that had happened to me over the last couple of months, these days I'd be suspicious of a jolly white-bearded man in a red suit carrying a bag over his shoulder.(Violet Parker)
Ann Charles
#40. Jesus Christ is the greatest man in the history of the world. And to me, he's the greatest person in the history of mankind and the universe. We can't prove it, I can't put it in a test tube or in an astronomical formula, but by faith I believe it because the Bible teaches it.
Billy Graham
#42. There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#43. Artists are odd," said Mousebones, walking around the man in blue. "Even for humans."
T. Kingfisher
#44. I use colors that have already been experienced through the light of day and through the state of mind of the total man. In other words, my colors are not colors that are laboratory tools which are isolated from all accidentals or impurities so that they have a specified identity or purity.
Mark Rothko
#45. The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
Victor Hugo
#46. The Magi are filled with awe by what they see; heaven on earth and earth in heaven; man in God and God in man; they see enclosed in a tiny body the One whom the entire world cannot contain.
Peter Chrysologus
#47. You have terrible judgment. You're in bed with the last man in the world you should trust, and you're about to make the biggest mistake of your life." "Is this your idea of seductive banter?" "I thought I should give you one last warning. Now you're doomed." "Oh, good.
Lisa Kleypas
#48. And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.
Leonard Cohen
#49. In this life you sometimes have to choose between pleasing God and pleasing man. - In the long run, it's better to please God - he's more apt to remember.
Harry Kemelman
#50. The eyes of a man in the jaundice make yellow observations on everything; and the soul tinctured with any passion diffuses a false color over the appearance of things.
Isaac Watts
#51. We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.
Blaise Pascal
#52. When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.
Johnny Cash
#53. it was times like these when a man in a desperate situation must take whatever madness is offered to escape the darker madness in which he finds himself trapped.
Sean F. Hogan
#54. A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.
William Shakespeare
#55. Strange, isn't it,' mused Glokta as he watched him struggle for air. 'Big men, small men, thin men, fat men, clever men, stupid men, they all respond the same to a fist in the guts. One minute you think you're the most powerful man in the world. The next you can't even breathe by yourself.
Joe Abercrombie
#56. Wave of sound swept over the ring as every man in the convocation shouted together.
Wilbur Smith
#57. So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
Lucretius
#58. Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#59. Mr. Cooper said to me that he had an idea for a film in mind. The only thing he'd tell me was that I was going to have the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood. Naturally, I thought of Clark Gable.
Fay Wray
#60. If I got something to say or do to a man, I'm going to look that man in the eye and tell him what is going to happen. That's just me now.
Karl Malone
#61. She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera'
Paul Simon
#62. If I ever see a man in a rug again, I'm not going to believe a single word he says! A man who lies about having hair will lie about anything.
Joanne Fluke
#63. One did not need to penetrate David's secret counsels or insinuate a man in his bodyguard. All one needed was a pair of years and access to the royal precincts. Just to eavesdrop upon his singing was to develop an accurate idea of his state of mind.
Geraldine Brooks
#64. At times he swears that he's going to go straight, but mostly he feels like a drowning man in love with the surf.
A.S.A Harrison
#65. A man in Georgia was arrested for burglary after he left his Facebook account open on the victim's computer. But this is nice: He's only been in jail a few hours, and his status already says In a Relationship!
Jimmy Fallon
#66. There was never a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than (Jackie) Robinson.
Branch Rickey
#67. If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s.
Tom Hanks
#68. The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.
Honore De Balzac
#69. Brother, in these past two months I've sensed a new man in me, a new man has arisen in me! He was shut up inside me, but if it weren't for this thunderbolt, he never would have appeared.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#70. 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
#71. All the time that I'm acting with an animated character, I'm looking at a tennis ball or sticky tape or an eyeline or a man in a green suit. There's no real environment, just this electric green that's blaring into your brain.
Mia Wasikowska
#72. I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.
Iggy Azalea
#73. He had four of the characteristics of a superior man: - in his conduct of himself, he was humble; in serving his superiors, he was respectful; in nourishing the people, he was kind; in ordering the people, he was just.
Confucius
#75. I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.
Pierre De Fermat
#76. If you're a man at night, you've got to be a man in the morning.
Ryan Lochte
#77. Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.
Malcolm X
#78. I can feel this man in every part of my body and he has not even touched me.
Lisa Renee Jones
#79. I hang up. I feel like a serious man in the emotional climax of a film that ends with a teary defeat. I wish this was in a film.
Ben Brooks
#80. I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.
Mickey Rooney
#81. Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.
Albert Einstein
#82. Goodbye Norma Jean From the young man in the 22nd row Who sees you as something more than sexual More than just our Marilyn Monroe
Elton John
#83. I tried, Tess. I really did. I did everything you asked of me. I did everything a man in love would do for his woman. But you don't want me and my beast no longer wants to hurt you. Whatever we had ... it's lost.
Pepper Winters
#84. I love humanity,' he said, 'but I wonder at myself. The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#85. 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
#87. To one who said, "I do not believe that there is an honest man in the world," another replied, "It is impossible that any one man should know all the world, but quite possible that one may know himself."
William Shenstone
#88. We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as easy to read the history of the sea, as it is to read the history of Man in the archives of any nation.
Jean-Andre De Luc
#89. I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
#90. I was not only a billionaire but the richest man in Turkey. It's a great feeling, but your responsibilities increase.
Husnu Ozyegin
#91. IT IS A FACT, UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED, that a single man in possession of a fine ass must be observed like wildlife
Qwen Salsbury
#92. Relax," the girl says. She holds out a hand but doesn't touch me. "We're not going to hurt you."
"Yet," the man in the doorway says with a smirk.
Amy Engel
#93. Jane Austen had it wrong, Sloan McKinley thought miserably as the black Lincoln Town Car drove her ever closer to the bright lights of the George Washington Bridge and the Manhattan streets she called home. A man in possession of a good fortune only wanted to get laid.
Addison Fox
#94. Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.
Charles Dickens
#95. On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.
Joe Biden
#96. She has probably never had a real man in her life; never felt a dick slide so deep she sees God.
Roxy Sloane
#97. I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.
Ben Affleck
#98. It has been recognized since the dawn of microbiology that the soil is inhabited by a living microscopic population which is responsible for the numerous reactions that take place in the soil and that affect the life and economy of man in many ways.
Selman Waksman
#99. And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.
Curt Flood
#100. A high-powered, successful woman doesn't necessarily have the same support behind her that a man in that position would. Plus, she's expected to be a domestic goddess, as well as the best wife, mother, friend, and lover. But it's not just in politics: you see it in acting, too, and in journalism.
Raquel Cassidy
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