Top 100 Quotes About A Man
#1. In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.
Eduardo Galeano
#2. Do you think a man is the only creature with whom one may fall in love?
Mary MacLane
#3. When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
Nicolas Chamfort
#4. You're walking around, Sam, with a weapon you don't know how to use. That's worse than walking around knowing how to use a weapon and not having one. A man with a weapon he doesn't know how to use is likely to have it shoved where the sun does not shine.
Terry Pratchett
#5. Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering - that is a fact.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#6. Prophets are dastardly pessimists, to a man.
Janny Wurts
#7. Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.
George Jean Nathan
#8. Police work can grind a man down, mentally, more than physically. I sensed that it is because of the hours of tedium and boredom, interrupted by moments of sheer terror.
James J. Kavanaugh
#9. It seems to me as a woman's face doesna want flowers; it's almost like a flower itself ... It's like when a man's singing a good tune, you don't want t' hear bells tinkling and interfering wi' the sound.
George Eliot
#10. Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods, and defend himself against his enemies, and win in the contest.
Plato
#11. When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#12. A man with no enemies is a man with no character.
Paul Newman
#13. I'd be alone the rest of my life before I'd settle for less than a man that flat out adored me.
R.K. Lilley
#14. A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they are withered and dry. Therefore, the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death, and the gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.
Laozi
#15. You show me how much you don't know. He is more than a man. He is a monster.
Susan Fanetti
#16. Peter was a gentle, red-haired bear of a man. Standing at six-four in his socks, he moved everywhere with a slight and nautical sway, but even though he was broad across the chest there was something centered and reassuring about him, like an old ship's mast cut from a single timber.
Graham Joyce
#17. This man was different from all others; he was forbidden fruit, the outsider. Her mother had trained her well, but she had never told her what to do if a man set her heart to throbbing like the hooves of a runaway horse.
Constance O'Banyon
#18. Never liked Kolanos. Was at a feast with him one time. Never heard him fart at all. Can't trust a man who doesn't fart at a feast.
David Gemmell
#19. I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.
Daniel Boone
#20. To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be madeby the reception of beautiful sentiments.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#21. As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
Francis Bacon
#22. They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.
George MacDonald
#24. Let's just be clear here. The vice president of the United States accidentally shoots a man, and he feels that it's appropriate for a ranch owner who witnessed this to tell the local Corpus Christi newspaper and not the White House press corps at large, or notify the public in a national way.
David Gregory
#25. A man coined to superlative must expect that his every statement will be taken with some caution
Claude C. Hopkins
#26. I take a jazz class and I also take just a regular exercise class with a man who gives me acupressure treatments. It's just stretching and elongating the muscles.
Jessica Lange
#27. $1,200, That was the price of a man in those days. Now you can call him black, or you can call him a slave, but he was a man nonetheless.
Jay Grewal
#28. Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.
Ben Casnocha
#29. My grandfather was an amazing man. You talk about character and integrity, everyone who knew him, whether they agreed with him or not, said, 'George Romney is a good man, and he sticks to his principles: a man of honesty and hard work, integrity.'
Tagg Romney
#30. Fear is a basic human instinct and an indicator of the gravity of a situation. It becomes an asset if it is effectively controlled. It becomes a weakness for a man if he lets it prevail over him.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#31. I am learning that a man can live profoundly without masses of things.
Richard E. Byrd
#32. A man must ... not be content to do things well, but must also aim to do them gracefully.
Giovanni Della Casa
#33. Don't beg a man to keep you. If he isn't sure you are the right one make the decision for yourself. You deserve better than maybe.
Paula Heller Garland
#34. Light, show yourself pure and strong,
Save a man from evil's throng,
Take a form, small and white,
Give this girl the strength to fight.
Clara Diane Thompson
#35. I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
Erica Jong
#36. Things had changed between us in a profound way, something I think we both knew. All our fighting and nitpicking seemed so silly now. So did my endless agonizing about whether or not I should be with him. Once a man disposes of a body for you, the moral high ground has been lost.
Joanna Wylde
#37. A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
Joseph Conrad
#38. One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
Charles Horton Cooley
#39. I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what's on the stove.
Gene Simmons
#40. A man's simplicity is the beauty of his humanity in life.
Anuj
#41. How interesting that a man didn't always admire his own traits in another. The
Grace Draven
#42. COLBIE: He's a man, and they're not smart like us card-carrying vaginas. I think the penis distract them too much, yet they still managed to invent airplanes and TV. Give the guy a break.
Bijou Hunter
#43. My time in Moscowmade a man of memade me an artistthere was a reality and a brutality of life that I think was very important, as a young American, for me to see.
Jon Bernthal
#44. There's only really two things about a man that matter: what he wants, and what he'll do to get it. Everythin' else we pretend is important
whether you're tough, or good-lookin', smart, stupid, honorable, whatever
that's just details.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#45. We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be somehow second rate. To be in the middle of the social food chain. Especially if you're a man. This society thinks real men are violent.
Marge Piercy
#46. I can't go back," said Towser.
"Nor I," said Fowler.
"They would turn me back into a dog," said Towser.
"And me," said Fowler, "back into a man.
Clifford D. Simak
#49. Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
C. G. Jung
#50. And atop the wolf, looking as dignified and butlerlike as might be possible for a man riding a werewolf, was Floote. Alexia
Gail Carriger
#51. Existence is the privilege of effort, and when that privilege is met like a man, opportunities to succeed along the line of your aptitude will come faster than you can use them.
Orison Swett Marden
#52. It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.
Austin Phelps
#53. Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.
Wendell Berry
#54. The worth of a wife is a man's good fortune;His jewels are his good children.
Thiruvalluvar
#56. Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened by a belief in god. No lower opinion of the human race has ever been expressed.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#57. When a man has many women in his life to cater to, one of them is bound to come last.
Terry A. O'Neal
#58. A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.
Mahatma Gandhi
#60. What a wise man knows is great,
what a fool knows is little,
and what God knows is infinite.
God does not condemn a man for not knowing,
but condemns a man for knowing and not doing.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#61. The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.
Paulo Coelho
#62. God, who calls a man, already knew the purpose of the calling
Sunday Adelaja
#63. A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.
Michael Faraday
#64. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#65. All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.
George Gershwin
#66. And where the fuck are your clothes? That's what I'd like to know. Do you know how disturbing it is to have a fight with a man who's naked?
Eve Langlais
#67. I have a deep-seated belief that marriage is between a man and a woman exclusively.
John Hogg
#68. For what blessing may a man hope for but
An immortality in
The loving vigilance of death.
Robert Penn Warren
#69. A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.
Thomas Brooks
#70. Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.
Raymond Queneau
#71. For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].
Edward Coke
#72. Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.
Henry Ford
#73. A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community.
Richardson Wright
#74. I never wanted to be a bombshell; I wanted to be an actor. I would much prefer to be a woman than a man, but if I was a dude, maybe I'd have Johnny Depp's island because women in this industry after a certain age definitely don't get to do 'Pirates of the Caribbean.'
Lori Petty
#75. Expecting conceit they found courtesy. Expecting arrogance they found a man concerned with people's thoughts and feelings.
Jackie Collins
#76. I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles.
Thomas Jefferson
#77. A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
Bertolt Brecht
#79. I was put in a position with a man that, whenever he would call me at work or at home, work-related, he would say jump and I'd say how high and I would jump.
Andrea Mackris
#80. It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
Will Rogers
#81. It would take a hell of a man to replace no man at all.
Anna Quindlen
#82. There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'
If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.
Sam Keen
#83. If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
Gautama Buddha
#84. As days lengthen into weeks and months and even years of adversity, the hurt grows deeper. The Church cannot hope to save a man on Sunday if during the week it is a complacent witness to the crucifixion of his soul.
D. Todd Christofferson
#85. He is a free man, not because is in a poition of political power and influence that you will never be able to achieve, and not because he has more character and heart in his fingertip than you have in your entire being, but because he is a man, and is thus entitled to be free.
Evan Meekins
#86. The worse thing a Dom could ever become is predictable. The occasional harsh session would go a long way to keeping our power exchange on edge. A true submissive craves a man with edge.
Al Daltrey
#87. Granted, a man may smile and smile and be a villain, but it takes nerve.
Jill Paton Walsh
#88. Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature ... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these things abut a person, you can touch him at the core of his being.
William Bernbach
#89. Over the years I've noticed that only men use this phrase - "unlucky in love" - in reference exclusively to unmarried women, as if they can't possibly comprehend that contentment or even happiness is possible without the centrality of a man.
Kate Bolick
#90. It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
Anthony Trollope
#91. Stepan Arkadyevitch felt exactly the difference that Pyotr Oblonsky described. In Moscow he degenerated so much that if he had had to be there for long together, he might in good earnest have come to considering his salvation; in Petersburg he felt himself a man of the world again.
Leo Tolstoy
#92. An insecure woman chases love; a confident woman invites a man to find her.
Shannon L. Alder
#93. A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.
John Quincy Adams
#94. I don't think there is anything a man can do that a woman cannot do.
Theodore Zeldin
#95. Thus a man looking through a tremendous telescope does not see the cirri of an Indian summer above his charmed orchard, but does see, as my regretted colleague, the late Professor Alexander Ivanchenko, twice saw, the swarming of hesperozoa in a humid valley of the planet Venus.
Vladimir Nabokov
#96. Was Christ a man like us?-Ah! let us try If we then, too, can be such men as he!
Matthew Arnold
#97. I've always been the kind of woman who had a man in her life even when he was the wrong man.
Gretchen Wilson
#98. The moment a man falls into sin, divine life ceases to flow, and his life becomes one of helplessness.
Smith Wigglesworth
#99. I was glad nobody had noticed.I might have been offended if my uncle had punched me in the shoulder and said something inane like, "so you're a man now.
Mike Mullin
#100. After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.
Orhan Pamuk
