Quotes on Man

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

Author: Lyman Abbott

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.

Author: F. Abraham

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

Author: Jack Abramoff

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

Author: Chinua Achebe

I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

Author: Roy Acuff

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.

Author: George Adams

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

Author: Gerry Adams

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

Author: Henry Adams

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Author: Henry Adams

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

Author: Henry Adams

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me."

Author: Joseph Addison

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Author: Joseph Addison

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Author: Joseph Addison

A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.

Author: George Ade

Man knows much more than he understands.

Author: Alfred Adler

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Author: Theodor Adorno

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Author: Aeschylus

The man who does ill must suffer ill.

Author: Aeschylus

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

Author: Aeschylus

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

Author: Aeschylus

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Author: Aeschylus

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

Author: Aeschylus

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Author: Spiro Agnew

Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.

Author: Shmuel Agnon

They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

Author: Ama Aidoo

As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.

Author: Damon Albarn

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

Author: Leon Alberti

Wine is a peep-hole on a man.

Author: Alcaeus

'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

Author: Alcaeus

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

Author: Thomas Aldrich

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.

Author: Nelson Algren

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

Author: Dante Alighieri

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.

Author: Fred Allen

A man is literally what he thinks.

Author: James Allen

It does you no good to see the number two or number three man in the corporation-you have to get through to number one.

Author: Stephen Ambrose

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

Author: Henri Amiel

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

Author: Henri Amiel

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Author: Henri Amiel

I know not what record of sin awaits me in the other world, but this I know, that I was never mean enough to despise any man because he was black.

Author: John Andrew

Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for.

Author: Ivo Andric

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.

Author: Paul Anka

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Author: Jean Anouilh

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

Author: Susan Anthony

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

Author: Susan Anthony

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

Author: Minna Antrim

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

Author: Minna Antrim

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

Author: Dario Argento

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Author: Aristophanes

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Author: Aristotle

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

Author: Richard Armour

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Author: Neil Armstrong

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Author: Edwin Arnold

A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich.

Author: John Astor

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.

Author: Rowan Atkinson

Nobody picks on a strong man.

Author: Charles Atlas

I'll prove in only seven days that I can make you a new man.

Author: Charles Atlas

15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.

Author: Charles Atlas

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

Author: W. Auden

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

Author: W. Auden

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Author: Saint Augustine

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.

Author: Ausonius

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Author: Jane Austen

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Author: Jane Austen

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

Author: Jane Austen

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

Author: Jane Austen

Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.

Author: Mary Austin

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

Author: Irving Babbitt

Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

Author: Lauren Bacall

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Author: Francis Bacon

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Author: Francis Bacon

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Author: Francis Bacon

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Author: Francis Bacon

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Author: Francis Bacon

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Author: Francis Bacon

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Author: Francis Bacon

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Author: Francis Bacon

It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man who was so anti-Semitic.

Author: Michael Baden

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

Author: Arthur Baer

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Author: Walter Bagehot

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

Author: Enid Bagnold

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Author: Philip Bailey

There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion.

Author: Fredrik Bajer

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

Author: Abu Bakr

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

Author: Abu Bakr

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

Author: Abu Bakr

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.

Author: Mikhail Bakunin

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

Author: James Baldwin

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

Author: James Baldwin

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Author: Honore Balzac

Mathematics is as old as Man.

Author: Stefan Banach

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

Author: Tallulah Bankhead

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.

Author: William Barclay

Man is too quick at forming conclusions.

Author: Edward Barnard

A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

Author: Barnabe Barnes

When I was a young man, I was overly sensitive to things, and I found it difficult to eat when I was nervous.

Author: Robert Barnes

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Author: Natalie Barney

Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.

Author: Majel Barrett

A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.

Author: James Barrie

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.

Author: Isaac Barrow

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

Author: Dave Barry

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

Author: John Barrymore

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

Author: Roland Barthes

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Author: Bernard Baruch

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

Author: Bernard Baruch

Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.

Author: Bernard Baruch

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.

Author: Mary Bateson

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

Author: Charles Baudelaire

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.

Author: Charles Baudelaire

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.

Author: Charles Baudelaire

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

Author: Jean Baudrillard

If we can send a man to the moon, then why don't we send a woman?

Author: Kylie Bax

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

Author: Francis Beaumont

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

Author: Simone Beauvoir

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

Author: Lord Beaverbrook

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Author: Henry Beecher

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

Author: Henry Beecher

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

Author: Henry Beecher

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Author: Henry Beecher

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Author: Henry Beecher

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

Author: Alexander Bell

I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face.

Author: Charlie Bell

A man is only as good as what he loves.

Author: Saul Bellow

I can throw out any man alive.

Author: Johnny Bench

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

Author: Peter Benchley

I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.

Author: Peter Benchley

Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.

Author: Robert Benchley

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Author: Robert Benchley

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

Author: Robert Benchley

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

Author: Robert Benchley

Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be.

Author: William Bennett

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

Author: A. Benson

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

Author: Claude Bernard

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

Author: Andrew Bernstein

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

Author: Leonard Bernstein

The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.

Author: Halle Berry

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

Author: Aneurin Bevan

It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.

Author: Elizabeth Bibesco

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.

Author: Judy Biggert

I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.

Author: Buffalo Bill

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

Author: Josh Billings

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Author: Josh Billings

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

Author: Josh Billings