Top 100 Man Of Quotes
#1. No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.
Aristotle.
#2. The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as best it can to the new knowledge.
Percy Williams Bridgman
#3. Mr. Bergman was a man of great working discipline. He forced everyone to concentrate when it was important. No disturbing noise during rehearsal. A code of silence.
Max Von Sydow
#4. The man of integrity who is true to self and to God will choose the right whether or not anyone is looking because he is self-driven, not externally controlled.
Tad R. Callister
#5. She enjoyed her own pain by this egoism of suffering, if I may so express it. This aggravation of suffering and this rebelling in it I could understand; it is the enjoyment of man, of the insulted and injured, oppressed by destiny, and smarting under the sense of its injustice.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#6. On the outside, the man of today is carefully groomed, perhaps unnecessarily and over carefully clean; while inside he is dirtier than the dirtiest animal - whose anus is as clean as its mouth, provided said animal has not been "domesticated" by "civilized" man.
Arnold Ehret
#7. A man of reason? A disinterested philosopher? I'd rather be a puppy wagging its tail.
Marty Rubin
#8. I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world.
Mary Todd Lincoln
#9. It is a strange experience for a man of pride and feeling to know that his interests are in the control of strangers who don't like or understand him.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10. He seems indeed to have been a man of exceptional kindness and amiability,
George Santayana
#11. Quayle himself was a surprisingly elegant man of sixty winters or more. (One might equally have said "sixty springs" or "sixty summers," but that would have been inaccurate, for Quayle was a man of bare trees and frozen water.)
John Connolly
#12. For a man of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, to his mind, solved the problem of sex rather well.
J.M. Coetzee
#13. Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.
T. S. Eliot
#14. The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
Cesare Pavese
#15. A man of power and responsibility nevertheless needs somebody to tell him when he is being a bloody fool.
Terry Pratchett
#16. He has suffered a great deal and is still suffering from the idea that he could make a theory, but was incapable of boldly overstepping the law, and so he is not a man of genius.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#17. Once you take sword in your hand, you will lose your right to talk about the peace! Man of peace and love never takes the sword in his hand!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#18. A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him, when he meets with such a thing, to dispel the midst, and fix the outlines of the vague form which is looming through it.
John Stuart Mill
#19. If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.
W.S. Gilbert
#20. I am afraid I am not quite so much the man of the world as might be good for me in some points. My feelings are not quite so evanescent, nor my memory of the past under such easy dominion as one finds to be the case with men of the world.
Jane Austen
#21. Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
Sallust
#23. I consider that for any man of culture to accept the standard of his age as a form of the grossest immorality.
Oscar Wilde
#24. Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.
Eleanor Catton
#25. The purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war was floating close beside the boat. It turned on its side and then righted itself. It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind in the water.
Ernest Hemingway,
#26. He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#28. God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.
Robert Burns
#29. A man of good will with a little effort and belief in his own powers can enjoy a deep, tranquil, rich life - provided he go his own way ... To live one's own life is still the best way of life, always was and always will be.
Henry Miller
#31. No man of honor avoided what needed to be done, simply because it might not proceed in his favor.
Claire Delacroix
#32. I think, like Ronald Reagan, in another way, in a secular way, John Paul II was a great communicator, but he was also a man of deep conviction.
Chris Matthews
#33. The question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer is: No, we don't. And if that's his answer, then he won't have anything to do with any of the politicians. Because they all want to land us in hell.
Aldous Huxley
#34. I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young ... he killed himself in the prime of his life.
Gustav Mahler
#35. This other Musketeer formed a perfect contrast to his interrogator, who had just designated him by the name of Aramis. He was a stout man, of about two- or three-and-twenty, with an open, ingenuous countenance, a black, mild eye, and cheeks rosy and downy as an autumn peach.
Alexandre Dumas
#36. What figure does the man of letters cut in a country where his employer is the proletariat ?
Walter Benjamin
#37. Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.
Jules Renard
#38. The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.
James M. Barrie
#39. When you see your fellow religious man, don't call him brother; but when you see a man of honour, a man of goodness, a man of peace, a man of ethics, now you can call him as your brother!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#40. Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his growth-as on the question of civil rights-he functioned like most men, as a product of his background.
Tom Wicker
#41. The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#42. The dream of poor Bazin had always been to serve a man of the cloth.
Alexandre Dumas
#43. There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me but a noble man of adventure who had no choice.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
#44. There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment. For a man to be utterly and absolutely moral, he has to be a bit stupid. For a man to be absolutely intellectual, he has to be a bit immoral.
Fernando Pessoa
#45. I had always thought myself to be a man of moderate passions indistinguishable in that respect from most Englishmen born to our logical and mannered times.
K.W. Jeter
#46. I decided to put on my new suit and go out and find a woman, a beautiful one, of course, to support a man of my still-hidden talents.
Charles Bukowski
#47. An attractive man of the dark, messy hair variety came around a corner and stopped short. He stared intently at her, his dark blue eyes mesmerizing. "Can I help you?" He slid behind the desk and
Cleo Peitsche
#48. I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they're immediately wanting to be a parent or not.
Emily VanCamp
#49. I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.
Moliere
#51. A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name
Arthur Schopenhauer
#53. My disadvantages will tire him as they would any reasonable man of small expectations." - Jane Adams
Noorilhuda
#54. And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed.
John Steinbeck
#55. An intellectual, heartless man never becomes an inspired man. It is always the heart that speaks in the man of love; it discovers a greater instrument than intellect can give you, the instrument of inspiration.
Swami Vivekananda
#56. An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself.
Henry Wotton
#57. If I'm no real good, I prefer to be just frankly no good. I don't want to disguise myself as a man of learning. I don't want to be the representative of a hobby. I want to be what nature made me - no good.
Aldous Huxley
#58. I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come into the world too early or too late. I believe that every man of intellect can create his own beautiful fable of life.
Gabriele D'Annunzio
#59. The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.
Andrew Carnegie
#60. There had been no contradiction between a man of science and a man of religion. They provided different means to the same goal: understanding the works of God.
Colin Dickey
#61. I am the man of the century. No one will ever forget me.
Pedro
#62. Let no man of us budge one step, and let slaveholders come to beat us from our country. America is more our country, than it is the whites-we have enriched it with our blood and tears. The greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears.
David Walker
#63. The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.
Aleister Crowley
#64. [I]t would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of to-day of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him cold, or rather, would flatter him. Immoralism has become a commonplace, and anybody and everybody boasts of practising it.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#65. We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.
Theodore Roosevelt
#66. What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible degree of sexual appeal, the less is required to make such an appeal effective.
Bertrand Russell
#67. To the man of faith, there is not a thing that is not opportunity.
Smith Wigglesworth
#68. Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love
Soren Kierkegaard
#69. Knowing Master Huckaback to be a man of his word, as well as one who would have others so, I was careful to be in good time the next morning ...
R.D. Blackmore
#70. I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.
Oscar Wilde
#71. The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.
H.L. Mencken
#72. Man or woman?" I asked. "Oh, man, of course. No woman would ever send a reply-paid telegram. She would have come.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#73. I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say playing football is all I have ever wanted to do.
Paul Scholes
#74. In spite of its glowing talk about the welfare of the masses, Communism's methods and philosophy strip man of his dignity and worth, leaving him as little more than a depersonalized cog in the ever-turning wheel of the state.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#75. A man of God in the will of God is immortal until His work is done.
David Jeremiah
#76. Joe, my guardian and a man of few words, once said about Lizzie, "That girl could talk the ears off a cornfield.
Sharon Creech
#77. A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.
Mahatma Gandhi
#78. This is it." Morgan gestured to the French doors like she was modeling a prize on a game show. "Here we have door number one. Will it lead our contestant to the dog-faced man of her dreams? Or will she find an axe-wielding psychopath? Stay tuned.
Cole Gibsen
#79. To the man of faith, there is always a future.
T. B. Joshua
#80. People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Andre Maurois
#81. One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.
Aldous Huxley
#82. The consistent and persistent man of average intelligence is more likely to succeed than an erratic and lazy genius.
Om Swami
#83. Restraint is totally the wrong way to go when the man of your dreams is licking your pussy like it's made of spun sugar.
Ainsley Booth
#84. But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.
Sidney Poitier
#86. The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#87. Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
Henrik Ibsen
#88. Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.
Michel De Montaigne
#89. The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
Thomas Carlyle
#90. STORY OF THE DOOR Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something
Robert Louis Stevenson
#91. To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
Oscar Wilde
#92. But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.
Robert Peel
#93. To those who believe the dead do not visit them, I say you have cataracts in your soul. I am a man of science, yet I believe in guardian angels and the haunting by ghosts.
Alyson Richman
#94. When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.
Lenore Coffee
#95. The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails.
H.L. Mencken
#96. The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
Charles Caleb Colton
#97. A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#98. In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many illusions, and never stop believing that every little bit helps.
Italo Calvino
#99. Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at peace, within himself content; In thought, or act, accountable to none But to himself, and to the gods alone.
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
#100. A man of quality is never threatened by a woman of equality.
Jill Briscoe
