Top 100 Man Quotes
#1. Eternity! O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
James Joyce
#2. It does not, surely, require such torrents of blood to satisfy any reasonable man that nothing can be a more impious presumption than for either side to think themselves entitled to count the Almighty as an ally in such a pitiful display of human passion.
James L. Petigru
#3. He loves her like a gambler loves a fast racehorse or a desperate man loves whiskey. That kind of love eats a man up.
Dorothy Allison
#4. The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.
Horace Mann
#5. At times a man must cut loose from his associates and stand alone for a great cause; but the necessity for such action is almost as rare as the necessity for revolution.
Theodore Roosevelt
#6. Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
J.C. Ryle
#7. No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his journey's end.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#8. The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
Fulton J. Sheen
#9. As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.
John Lancaster Spalding
#10. The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
Pliny The Elder
#11. He lived long enough to give the chaplain his name - John Goetchius - but died before he could tell the kind man where his home was.
Katherine Paterson
#12. the thing no one wants to talk about is that the normal American woman is extremely weak when placed in closed quarters with a man she likes.
G.L. Lambert
#13. A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Alexander Pope
#14. I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
Oscar Wilde
#15. For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
Edward Abbey
#16. The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.
Anthony Trollope
#17. An elderly black man with gray hair said, "Every bottle should come with a warning: 'This bottle may cause you to lose your job. This bottle may cause you to get a divorce. This bottle may cause you to become homeless.
Akhil Sharma
#18. What is asserted by a man is an opinion; what is asserted by a woman is opinionated. A woman with ideas and the ability to express them is something of a social embarrassment, like an unhousebroken pet.
Marya Mannes
#20. Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.
Blaise Pascal
#21. A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
Albert Camus
#22. Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth.
Alvin Adams
#24. Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.
Virginia Woolf
#25. Sweet to me was not the voice of man, But the wind's voice was understood by me. The burdocks and the nettles fed my soul, But I loved the silver willow best of all.
Anna Akhmatova
#26. I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
G.K. Chesterton
#27. If you run out of gas, get a man to pee in your tank. Thanks mom, for that timeless piece of wisdom. My car exploded, ok?
Grace Feldman
#28. Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
Mae West
#29. Man said, I am tired of kings! Sons of the robber-chiefs of yore, They make me pay for their lust and their war; I am the puppet, they pull the strings; The blood of my heart is the wine they drink. I will govern myself for awhile I think, And see what that brings!
Henry Van Dyke
#30. Well, don't stand about like that, man; if you're no use you're certainly no ornament. Bring that in and tell me what it says.
Stephen Baxter
#31. To walk inwardly with God, and not to be held by any outer affections, is the state of a spiritual man.
Thomas A Kempis
#32. As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
Virginia Woolf
#33. He's a real nowhere man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.
Doesn't have a point of view,
Knows not where he's going to,
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
The Beatles
#34. When you feel small in a God made world, it's called realization and when you feel small in a man made world, it's called exploitation.
Girish Kohli
#35. The fate of man does not chase him as much as he chases his fate.
Raheel Farooq
#36. It would be too easy to become infatuated with a man like him, and also decidedly unwise considering the female debris left in his wake.
Tiffany Snow
#37. For modern man, survival meant mental change. The stubborn died as martyrs; the fanatic and the philosopher perished in the face of sudden change. To survive now one had to be pliable; one had to adjust to new codes and ideals and morals. The mind had to change.
William Mulvihill
#38. It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage.
[Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit.
Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.]
Plautus
#39. How far have we come in man's long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light - a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#40. Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.
Claire Keegan
#41. I want a hardened man, not a mass-murdering, pathologically vengeful one," Vlad said. "There's only room for one of those in my line right now, and that's me.
Jeaniene Frost
#42. If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
Henry David Thoreau
#43. With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.
Rodney Dangerfield
#44. A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.
Leo Tolstoy
#45. Presents are the best way to show someone how much you care. It is like this tangible thing that you can point to and say, Hey man, I love you this many dollars-worth.
Michael Scott
#46. Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it
Juvenal
#47. Longing to excel, he had never even succeeded. He had been hampered by not knowing a number of things the average man took for granted; but he was hampered still more by knowing a number of other things the average man had never suspected.
Ellen Glasgow
#48. Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt.
Dan Abnett
#49. Arianna Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man-he made a good decision.
Donald Trump
#50. For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.
Albert Camus
#51. The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
Thomas Malthus
#52. I played mostly games like Asteroids and Pac-Man. Today, when I go into an arcade, the games are much more difficult and complex. I don't think I could even play some of the video games that are out there today.
Brandi Chastain
#53. Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.
Henry David Thoreau
#54. Hello, Miss Mackay. It's been a while, hasn't it? But then, a man never knows quite when he'll run into you, eh, Kiernan?
Heather Graham
#55. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will daily grow more and more right. It is at the bottom of the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.
Thomas Carlyle
#56. The fear of man is the sinful exaggeration of a normal experience.
Edward T. Welch
#58. Thus it was quickly decided that Pitry - being young, cheerful, and not in the room at the time - would be the best man for the job.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#59. Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.
Vita Sackville-West
#60. Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#61. God made the angels to show Him splendor, as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But Man He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of his mind.
Thomas More
#62. Well, a love story, that's no story at all. People don't want a happy ending. They want conflict. They want the heroine to fall for man she can never have.
Jodi Picoult
#63. Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.
Mahatma Gandhi
#64. In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven.
Walter Scott
#65. The agony of man is always longer than the fleeting moments of bliss. The trick is to reverse those two.
Ben Midland
#66. You missed the morning's festivities," Bo said to Adamat. "You call torturing a man 'festivities'?" Adamat asked. "I'm not a good person," Bo said.
Brian McClellan
#68. I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen, make changes - 'Oh, man, that's messed up. Okay, I need to work on that; I need to work on this.'
Mary J. Blige
#69. I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as George Carlin puts it, 'the invisible man living in the sky'
Seth MacFarlane
#70. When a man walks alone,
He is heard by thy own ears...
But when a man walks among others,
He is heard throughout eternity.
Mark Edward Thomas Piotrowski
#71. For the Bible there is nothing numinous, no holy or divine presence, within nature itself. Nature is a fellow creature of man.
Northrop Frye
#72. The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.
Plato
#73. Man, if you're gay we can be friends. If you're straight, we can be friends. I'm not gay, I don't plan on being gay, I don't condone it and I'm not sayin' I'm against it.
ASAP Rocky
#74. 'Man v. Food' was the biggest career-defining opportunity. I went from anonymity to someone of note with access to amazing eateries.
Adam Richman
#75. From a very young man, I learned the importance of believing in Jesus Christ, and I have all my life.
Rick Scott
#76. The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God
this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.
Karl Barth
#77. A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C.S. Lewis
#79. No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.
John Trumbull
#80. I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.
John F. Kennedy
#81. [My] pillar of support through life ... I can say conscientiously that I do not know in the world a man of purer integrity, more dispassionate, disinterested, and devoted to genuine Republicanism; nor could I in the whole scope of America and Europe point out an abler head.
Thomas Jefferson
#82. Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#83. Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
Francis Bacon
#84. Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.
George R R Martin
#85. Man's nature and destiny are revealed in the Scriptures.
Billy Graham
#86. Look at the man go, its like trying to stop a water-buffalo with a pea-shooter.
Sid Waddell
#87. You definitely feel a little exposed, because some of your friends call you like, "Man, I need that much."
Will Ferrell
#88. Your smile would bring a lesser man to his knees. But if you wore your glasses and smiled at me like that, it would topple me.
Sawyer Bennett
#89. I am a traditional man. I'm a product of a traditional man. He sacrificed everything for his family.
Andy Garcia
#90. Man makes very much such a nest for his domestic animals, of withered grass and fodder, as the squirrels and many other wild creatures do for themselves.
Henry David Thoreau
#91. He looked at the cop. He'd known the man less than a day, didn't trust him, and wasn't sure he much liked him. And this was who he'd die with.
James S.A. Corey
#92. When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.
Edouard Bourdet
#93. An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.
Jean De La Bruyere
#94. Any man can fuck me. But Alexei fucks my mind. My heart. My soul. He lights me up and burns me down. Every single time.
A. Zavarelli
#95. The man who receives gifts from God, receives an appointment from God; namely, that of donor; and the wisdom to discharge the functions connected with this appointment will surely not be withheld, if it be ingenuously asked.
George Bowen
#97. An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
Joseph Conrad
#98. The man starts wars all the fucking time, only this time, when I needed a little conflict? Now he's the fucking peacemaker.
James S.A. Corey
#99. Force will not keep the empire together. Force has never kept anything together for the very long. The more you tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers. You're a foolish man Governor. Foolish men often choke to death on their own delusions.
George Lucas
#100. A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.
Djuna Barnes
