Top 100 Man Who Quotes
#1. Who is the man who can call from the back door at night: "Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme! Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme"?
Westbrook Pegler
#2. The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.
Henry David Thoreau
#3. We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
Nikolai Gogol
#5. The worst negotiator in the world is a man who believes he's clever.
Ken Follett
#6. The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.
Plautus
#7. Nothing is respectfully amazing than a man who finds no shame to tell the world how grateful he is for all the love and sacrifices his woman made..
Himmilicious
#8. A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.
Kristin Cashore
#9. A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration.
Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre
#10. Do you have a record contract? I have a recording agreement. What's the difference? One is an agreement and one is a contract! I am a man who deals by ear.
Bob Marley
#11. A man who's courtin' a woman shouldn't disappear at the first sign of a little trouble.
Debra Holland
#12. I fear not the man that can throw a thousand different kicks once, but the man who can throw one kick a thousand times.
Bruce Lee
#13. A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar.
Leo Strauss
#14. I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.
Edward Abbey
#15. The man who has truly believed in his heart ... his life will be marked by a biblical confession of Christ in word and deed.
Paul Washer
#17. I want to be the man who haunts your dreams and thoughts, the man whom you cannot live without.
H.P. Mallory
#18. Some people want to know why I wished to be called Francis. For me, Francis of Assisi is the man of poverty, the man of peace, the man who loves and protects creation.
Pope Francis
#19. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.
Bruce Lee
#20. The best man of all is he who knows everything himself. Good also the man who accepts another's sound advice; but the man who neither knows himself nor takes to hear what another says, he is no good at all.
Hesiod
#21. Not the man who has much, but the man who is much is the fully developed, truly human man.
Erich Fromm
#22. I'm still a broken girl struggling through the stages of my grief, trying to reenter the real world without the man who is still part of me.
Kim Karr
#24. Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
Charles Dickens
#25. The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#26. To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead -somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man -somewhere these, too, come together.
Marguerite Duras
#27. Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about poets and poetry - but how to speak to a man who does not see you? who sees ogres, satyrs, perhaps the depth of the sea instead?
Virginia Woolf
#28. Good luck waits to come to that man who accepts opportunity.
George S. Clason
#29. There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.
Henry Ward Beecher
#30. A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.
Andrei Platonov
#31. You do not hunt a man who comes looking for you, Temujin reminded him softly.
Conn Iggulden
#32. A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.
Jesse Jackson
#33. You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.
Mark Twain
#34. In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher.
Francis Schaeffer
#35. Anything is easy to the man who sees ... The open eye of the open mind
that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.
Samuel Hopkins Adams
#36. My final prayer:
O my body, make of me always a man who questions!"
- Frantz Fanon, "Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon
#37. I've decided to just keep doing Oh, Hello, where I play an older man who thinks he's very cultured. That clearly has not gone away.
Nick Kroll
#38. I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.
-W.A. Clark, ascribed
Bill Dedman
#39. The fear was visible on their faces and in their trembling voices. Neither of them had wanted to think about what life would be like without the man who made them feel safe.
Vicky Pattison
#40. The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
Aristotle.
#41. What happens to a man who just won't cooperate?"
"Well, he moves on. The others get tired of him, you know. They make fun of him, or they get rough with him, beat him up ...
Ursula K. Le Guin
#42. Success comes to the man who grits his teeth, squares his jaw and says, "There is a way for me and, by jingo, I'll find it".
Cliff Sloan
#43. There is a tale of a man who found on the road a large stone bearing the words, "Under me lies a great truth." The man strained to turn the stone over and finally succeeded. On the bottom was written, "Why do you want a new truth when you do not practice what you already know?
Eknath Easwaran
#44. He tried to work alongside his father as a carpenter but a man who had been taught only to destroy found it hard to create.
Nadia Hashimi
#45. You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.
Henry David Thoreau
#46. I'd never seen Marcello [Mastroianni] truly in love with a woman. I called him "the man who couldn't love." He was capable of enormous amounts of affection. He respected the women who were close to him, but never once fell in love.
Giovanna Cau
#47. There were at least four people who realized that Inspector Stanislaus Oates, only lately promoted to the Big Five, was being followed down High Holborn by the short, squat, shabby man who yet bore the elusive air of a forgotten culture about him.
Margery Allingham
#48. According to my sister Jackie, most men stray. And sex doesn't mean anything to most men. But I wouldn't date a man who slept around. Absolutely not, I've divorced people for that
Joan Collins
#49. A man who gives all his thought to doing good, but no thought to the consequences ... " Father Yarvi lifted his withered hand and pressed its one crooked finger into Brand's chest. "That is a dangerous man.
Joe Abercrombie
#50. I'm with a man who's evolved enough to look at my body and see it as more beautiful because of the journey it has taken.
Angelina Jolie
#51. A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it.
Laurence Sterne
#52. Among the various vernaculars that are spoken in different parts of India, there is one that stands out strongly from the rest, as that which is most widely known. It is Hindi. A man who knows Hindi can travel over India and find everywhere Hindi-speaking people.
Annie Besant
#53. I don't know that I understand the
human concept of jealousy. I'm not afraid of any other male taking you from me because no man who ever tried such a thing would live. But yes I hold what is mine close to me.
Tessa Dawn
#54. The west need someone to tell the man who walks around with the biggest stick in the world, that that stick can't bring down God's house.
Saddam Hussein
#55. You see, in the image of Aquarius, it's a man who pours water into the fish. Now the fish is the unconscious. It is not enough just to have it. We have to actively turn towards it and support it so that it then helps us.
Marie-Louise Von Franz
#56. A man who has shot lions in large quantities has an unfair advantage over other men.
Agatha Christie
#57. Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.
Jules Renard
#58. Hitler's historical hero had always been Frederick the Great. [Later], under Goebbels' prompting ... Napoleon emerged ... as his model ... Frederick the Great was a man who knew when to stop [and] Napoleon did not.
Ernst Hanfstaengl
#59. Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
Andre Gide
#60. A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
Oscar Levant
#61. Within are shabby shelves, ranged round with old decanters, bottles, flasks; and in those jaws of swift destruction, like another cursed Jonah (by which name indeed they called him), bustles a little withered old man, who, for their money, dearly sells the sailors deliriums and death.
Herman Melville
#62. I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.
Sidney Sheldon
#63. Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt
#64. I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens.
Michel, 14th Prince Of Ligne
#65. True love is taking the risk that it won't be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, I'm not afraid to believe in you.
Cara Lockwood
#66. It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.
Bette Greene
#67. How great is the position of the man who is born of God, born of purity, born of faith, born of life, born of power!
Smith Wigglesworth
#68. Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.
Joe E. Lewis
#69. When you want to get married, ask the universe for a man who has every quality money cannot buy. Then go about to create your own prosperity.
Barbara Rose
#70. They have feared the gods, as they should, for gods are a bunch of sodden bastards. For a man who does not fear them, does not fear the terrible consequences. If mortals fail, gods fall.
Alaric Longward
#71. The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.
Samuel Johnson
#72. We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#73. One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.
Thomas Merton
#74. Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
Harry S. Truman
#75. Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.
Beryl Markham
#76. Who has a house for ten years and doesn't own a drill? - Kerry
A gay man who has the phone number of a really hot carpenter. - Malcolm
Jaime Samms
#77. The man who walks alone is soon trailed by the F.B.I.
Wright Morris
#78. In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
John Stuart Mill
#79. Woe to the man who trusts and puts faith in the smiles of a woman
Shota Rustaveli
#80. A man who thinks he is a king is mad, a king who thinks he is a king is no less so.
Maggie Nelson
#81. Show me one man who knows his own heart, to him I shall belong.
Jewel
#82. What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
Albert Camus
#83. The man who tries to find out what has been said against him, who seeks to unearth spiteful gossip, even when engaged in privately, is destroying his own peace of mind.
Seneca.
#84. Just as the banqueteers are drunk from wine, the citizens are drunk from fears, hopes, desires, and aversions and are therefore in need of being ruled by a man who is sober.
Leo Strauss
#85. The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.
Swami Vivekananda
#86. Once there was a man who was afraid of his shadow.
Then he met it.
Now he glows in the dark.
Ben Loory
#87. I've been following him since Space Oddity. And I've followed him from all those albums that didn't sell, like The Man Who Sold The World and things like that. Above all, apart from all the glamorous rubbish, the music's there. Ziggy Stardust is a classic album.
Elton John
#88. A man who is depleted by worry is he who natural immunity is reduced
Sunday Adelaja
#89. Our men liked conquest; they did not trust a man who was conquered himself.
Madeline Miller
#90. A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Carl Jung
#91. Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.
Deanna Raybourn
#92. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill
#93. Like I need to play on the Wii when you're there willing to f*** me. Video games are what men invented to fill the sex void. Any man who chooses video games over sex deserves to live in his mother's basement with his mint-condition, in box Star Wars figurines and his real doll.
Lauren Dane
#94. Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.
William Feather
#95. As he slowly climbed the stairs, Cassidy looked upward and vowed in Scarlett O"Hara-like fashion, "As God is my witness, I shall never kick a man who"s got my dick in his mouth again.
Ethan Day
#96. The entire future of marriage rests with Justice Anthony Kennedy, the man who declared in Citizens United that corporations are people with constitutional rights. I just hope he doesn't do anything rash, like declare that homosexuals are people with constitutional rights.
Stephen Colbert
#97. I'm a very ordinary man who's worked and fed like everyone else. I'm no longer afraid of dying, but death doesn't seem to want anything to do with me, now that I can see no point in living. I'm afraid he's forgotten me.
Emile Zola
#98. I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.
Henny Youngman
#99. He loses himself in his own thoughts. Floats away, as if in a mist. He's never been the sort of man who does that, has never been a daydreamer, but lately it's as if something's twisted up in his head. He's having increasing difficulty concentrating on things. He doesn't like it at all.
Fredrik Backman
#100. She was in love, as she quite saw, with a middle - aged man who said the same thing to all the girls, who had been a prince for an evening which he'd most likely forgotten already, who had given her a ring with a redcurrant in it and who cared, to the exclusion of all else, for his work.
Penelope Fitzgerald
