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man's Quotes
- A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore...
- A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is...
- A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse. ...
- A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion. ...
- A man's as old as he's feeling, A woman as old as she looks. ...
- A man's best friends are his ten fingers. ...
- A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. ...
- A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. ...
- A man's errors are what make him amiable. ...
- A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary....
- A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. ...
- A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the...
- A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it is a sign...
- A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest...
- A man's ruin lies in his tongue. ...
- A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. ...
- A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in...
- A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. ...
- A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly...
- A man's work is his dilemma: his job is his bondage, but it also gives him a fair share...
- A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. ...
- A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends...
- A moment's thought shows that man's feeling of isolation has no foundation, biologically or sociologically. We grow out of...
- A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer...
- A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name. ...
- A wise man's question contains half the answer. ...
- Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp - or what's a heaven for? ...
- All good men are happy when they choose to be their own authors. Those who choose to have others...
- All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals....
- America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas, it calls...
- An honest man's word is as good as his bond. ...
- An orphan's curse would drag to HellA spirit from on high;But oh! More horrible than thatIs the curse in...
- Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art. ...
- As a sinner I could not please God, I could not neutralize or pay for my own sin. But...
- Bed is the poor man's opera. ...
- Beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting. ...
- By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. ...
- Children are a poor man's wealth. ...
- Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying. A...
- Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. ...
- During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once...
- Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he...
- Every man should make up his own mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest...
- Every man's life, liberty, and property are in danger when the Legislature is in session. ...
- Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is...
- Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a...
- Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind. ...
- Faith in tomorrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition. ...
- First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled...
- He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie. ...
- Hope is the poor man's bread. ...
- Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. ...
- Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. ...
- Humor [is] something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in...
- I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's...
- I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as...
- I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room....
- I like to have a man's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I...
- I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. ...
- I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others...
- I think it every man's indispensable duty to do all the service he can to his country; and I...
- If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the...
- If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure. ...
- If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,...
- If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and...
- In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father. ...
- In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibration of beauty. ...
- In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and...
- It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough...
- Learn that the present hour alone is man's. ...
- Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom...
- Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. ...
- Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ...
- Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block...
- Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most...
- Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has...
- Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains it's original dimensions. ...
- Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. ...
- Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe. ...
- Money is a poor man's credit card. ...
- Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on, and one to think with. Ever since then man's...
- Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ...
- No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of...
- Nothing had excited me - the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant...
- Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. ...
- Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to...
- Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to...
- Of course I believe that solipsism is the correct philosophy, but that's only one man's opinion. ...
- One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly. ...
- One man's religion is another man's belly laugh. ...
- One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. ...
- One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides. ...
- Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's...
- Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking...
- People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there. ...
- Play has been man's most useful preoccupation. ...
- Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's...
- Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully;...
- Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fools. ...
- Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life. ...
- Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the...
- So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of...
- Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues. ...
- Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome. ...
- That best portion of a good man's life. His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. ...
- The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love....
- The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. ...
- The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without...
- The direction of a man's thought is always the decisive factor in his personality. His whole outer life will...
- The factory of the future will have two employees: a man and a dog. The man's job will be...
- The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by...
- The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by...
- The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be...
- The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a...
- The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for...
- The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a...
- The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack...
- The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in...
- The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. ...
- The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. ...
- The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. There are none...
- The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind....
- The true God is the unknown God to the natural man and also the unknowable God without His revelation...
- There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death: he is not conscious of being...
- There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid...
- There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and...
- There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as...
- There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little...
- There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved; it is God's finger on man's shoulder....
- Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends. ...
- This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth...
- Though the rich man's dinner goes in at his mouth, the poor man must often be content to dine...
- To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is...
- To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. ...
- To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him. ...
- Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. ...
- We can often tell by a man's walk whose son he is, and we should walk so that men...
- What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be...
- What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a...
- When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in. ...
- When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a...
- When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's...
- When salvation is viewed as man's program, it is left up to man as to whether he will let...
- When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious...
- While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity...
- Who depends on another man's table often dines late. ...
- Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each...
- Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. ...
- You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be...
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Dance of the Demon (Eduard Holst)