Top 100 The Man Who Quotes
#1. Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance
Elizabeth Goudge
#2. 'The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.
Ben Macintyre
#3. Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#4. I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.
Charles Buxton
#6. Everything was in its place except the man who lived there. I
Kerry Lonsdale
#7. The man who comes to fix the cable approaches her when she is alone in the house. 'Is there anything to eat?' he asks. 'There are some chapatis,' she replies. 'Can I get something to eat?' he repeats.
Suketu Mehta
#8. The man who has his ideals, no matter how thoroughly he may be persuaded to desert them, survives well only so long as he is true to those ideals.
L. Ron Hubbard
#9. The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
Oscar Wilde
#10. I was falling for the man who had turned me. He could never know.
Heather Heffner
#11. The reason why a work of genius is not easily admired from the first is that the man who has created it is extraordinary, that few other men resemble him. It is his work itself that, by fertilising the rare minds capable of understanding it, will make them increase and multiply.
Marcel Proust
#12. He'd been kidnapped, betrayed, almost fed to a Diamondscale - yes, a Diamondscale - and now, just to top things off, he was on the run with the man who was responsible for the whole mess.
Ruth Ford Elward
#13. Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!
Jacques Lipchitz
#14. The man who broods over the past can never master the difficulties of today. Every wise man learn to forget.
Herbert Newton Casson
#15. Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money ...
Peggy Noonan
#16. But more than that, I felt - no, not beautiful. Even on such a romantic day as this I could not persuade myself of that. I knew that my jaw was too square, my legs too long, my hands too large. But I earnestly believed - and all the books agreed - that I would look beautiful to the man who loved me.
Corrie Ten Boom
#17. The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.
Voltaire
#18. The man who groped for the new new thing was in many ways ill suited for mainstream business.
Michael Lewis
#19. You won't find someone who treats you as you should be treated until you start to believe you are worth the ones you want, the ones who aren't asking you to do any work. Find the man who appreciates you at your best, not one who confirms your worst suspicions about yourself.
Mhairi McFarlane
#20. It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.
Vash Young
#21. is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed' was the ninth beatitude." Alexander Pope (1688-1744), English poet
Robert Courtade
#22. The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
Elbert Hubbard
#23. There is no fear of judgment for the man who judges himself according to the Word of God.
Howard G. Hendricks
#24. The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the cooperation or consent of his deliberate reason.
Bertrand Russell
#25. The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of honor than its conqueror.
J. Arthur Thomson
#26. The Word that will change a man must first show the man who he really is.
Christian Michael
#27. The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it ... eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.
Plutarch
#28. The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to comprehend the science of handling pig-iron
Frederick Winslow Taylor
#29. The man who despises himself tries to gain self-esteem from sexual adventures - which can't be done, because sex is not the cause, but an effect and an expression of a man's sense of his own value.
Ayn Rand
#30. And I saw a light-filled man emerge from the aforesaid dawn and pour his brightness over the aforementioned darkness; it repulsed him; he turned blood-red and pallid, but struck back against the darkness with such force that the man who was lying in the darkness became visible and resplendent.
Hildegard Of Bingen
#31. He taught me so much about strength and power. That the man who is truly powerful has the option to forgive, to pardon, to forgo vengeance and violence. It's the weak man that must prove himself such.
A.C. Gaughen
#32. The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.
Marilyn Monroe
#33. Odysseus is always slipping out, the man who has been everywhere, seen everything, done everything,
Adam Nicolson
#34. Be careful to know yourself when the time comes," he warned the Little King. "The man who fails the test will run for the rest of his life, with the beast still in his heart.
Ellen Kushner
#35. The man who would find his vegetal negative and unite with it would restore the integrity of the cosmos.
Rene Daumal
#36. The man who thinks with Horace thinks divine.
Horace
#37. Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
Carl Jung
#38. A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#39. If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!
H.P. Lovecraft
#40. This loving greeting
is from the man who wants to share,
my life, my love, my everything
because nothing else compares.
Susan Smith
#41. Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
Fulton J. Sheen
#42. The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.
Mark Twain
#43. Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#44. The man who has never been disappointed has never understood happiness, the man who has never been anxious has never learned patience, the man who has never been depressed will never know ecstasy.
Palle Oswald
#45. The man who says that he has no illusions has at least that one.
Joseph Conrad
#46. The man who assumes everything is a lie is at least as mistaken as the one who assumes everything is true.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#47. To the man who knows what makes the perfect date night
Kim Harrison
#48. It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
William Faulkner
#49. The man who attempts Christianity without the church shoots himself in the foot, shoots his children in the leg, and shoots his grandchildren in the heart.
Kevin DeYoung
#50. A snake that could harm you, you don't have much choice to kill. You wouldn't be able to leave a cobra in your sock drawer. But a snake that is no threat will greatly define the man who decides to kill it anyways.
Tiffany McDaniel
#51. Could it be, God forbid, that nationality is only a superficial, insignificant layer of the onion that is your being? What would you think of the man who would say of himself 'I am an overcoat' just because he happened to be wearing one?
Jean-Christophe Valtat
#52. The future," wrote C. K. Brightbill, "will belong not only to the educated man, but to the man who is educated to use his leisure wisely.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#53. The man who tries to be funny is lost. To lose one's naturalness is always to lose the sympathy of your audience.
Harold Lloyd
#54. The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel Butler
#56. There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.
Epicurus
#57. His name was Roger Stone. And he was the man who first introduced Alex Jones to his close friend Donald Trump. *
Jon Ronson
#58. To the self-righteous, being judged according to deeds does not seem too alarming but to the man who knows himself the thought is terrifying.
Paul Washer
#59. Begger or rich man, soldier or merchant, Rufus was indestructible, for the man who could laugh at life or death was in the end the only conqueror.
Rosemary Anne Sisson
#60. Abraham Maslow, the man who gave us Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, once said: "The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
Brad Hams
#61. The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.
Henry Ford
#63. The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.
Tim LaHaye
#64. A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence
#65. The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.
Walter Lippmann
#66. Question: What do you get the man who has everything? Answer: a concious. That guy is so greedy.
Demitri Martin
#67. Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.
William J. Mayo
#69. Well, I have been working on my own theory for twelve years," and then he proceeded to describe it in excruciating detail. When he was finished, Feynman turned to me and said, in front of the man who had just proudly described his work, "That's exactly what I mean about wasting your time.
Leonard Mlodinow
#70. The man who wins is the man who hangs on just five minutes longer after everyone else has quit.
Douglas Southall Freeman
#71. The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.
Laurence J. Peter
#72. The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.
John Ruskin
#73. You have a billion people who know 'Tribbles' and only half a million who know my novel 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' which is one of my better-known books.
David Gerrold
#74. But my father, the man who was in my room and had turned on the light, he'd raised me. He'd tamed me with all the love that lived inside him.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#75. I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make man happy.
Siegbert Tarrasch
#76. The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.
Socrates
#77. The man who can accept defeat and take his salary without feeling guilty is a thief.
George Allen
#78. How good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.
Ernest Hemingway,
#79. I saw the soul of the man who knew my everything, as much as I knew his.
Renee Ericson
#80. The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
Jose Bergamin
#81. As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles ... The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#82. Well, it would have to be "The Man Who Was Thursday." It's a damn good read that I believe should be read by everyone in politics.
Terry Pratchett
#83. In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.
Vincent Van Gogh
#84. The man who was speaking had a degree in jargon and a doctorate in nonsense.
Kate Atkinson
#85. Results are often negative. We learn what something is not - and that is as important as a positive discovery to the man who is going to pick up from there. At least he knows what not to do.
Daniel Keyes
#86. Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
Joseph Joubert
#87. Stringham said: 'If you're not careful you will suffer the awful fate of the man who always knows the right clothes to wear and the right shop to buy them at.
Anthony Powell
#88. Here is a good reply of a clever horse to the man who tries to ride and control it: Throwing him into the air
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#89. I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#90. The man who shouts wins battles; the quiet man wins the war.
Robert Ferrigno
#91. The man armed with knowledge has a better chance of survival than the man who is simply the fittest. Knowledge is the true strength. Muscle is where the myth is.
Suzy Kassem
#92. Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#93. I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.
Mark Twain
#94. The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
Bertolt Brecht
#96. Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.
Giacomo Leopardi
#97. I know of no condition worse than that of the man who has little or no light on the supreme religious questions, and who at the same time is making no effort to come to the light.
Enoch Fitch Burr
#98. Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon
as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses what will happen will be blamed for it. No one will believe he has merely guessed.
Hortense Calisher
#99. It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.
Seneca The Younger
#100. What do you think?" he asked Hermione.
"Oh, Harry," she said wearily, "it's a pile of utter rubbish. This can't be what the sign really means. This must just be his weird take on it. What a waste of time."
"I s'pose this is the man who brought us Crumple-Horned Snorkacks," said Ron.
J.K. Rowling
