Man Quotes

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. (Samuel Butler (novelist))
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. View quote
Confucius
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error. View quote
Cicero
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. View quote
Ezra Pound
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. View quote
Cicero
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. View quote
Alexander Pope
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. View quote
Leon Trotsky
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death. (Epicurus)
Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear. View quote
Ovid
Beware of the fury of the patient man. View quote
John Dryden
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Man was born free, but is everywhere in bondage. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. View quote
Confucius
Life gives nothing to man without labor. View quote
Horace
Only when man's life comes to end in prosperity can one call that man happy. View quote
Aeschylus
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. View quote
Virgil
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. (Gloria Steinem)
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. View quote
Plutarch
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. View quote
Aesop
I'd like to live like a poor man with lots of money. View quote
Pablo Picasso
I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man. View quote
Themistocles