Man Quotes - page 16

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. (Virginia Woolf)
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. View quote
Jonathan Swift
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. View quote
William Blake
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. View quote
Carl Jung
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
A wise man loses nothing, if he but saves himself. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
Man is an embodied paradox, A bundle of contradictions. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie. View quote
H. G. Wells
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls this adventure Science. View quote
Edwin Hubble
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. (H. L. Mencken)
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all. View quote
Helen Rowland
Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. View quote
Helen Rowland
No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist. View quote
Eric Berne
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. View quote
Will Rogers
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. View quote
Henry Adams
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. View quote
Henry Adams
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. View quote
Henry Adams
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him. View quote
Marlene Dietrich
Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the night. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. View quote
Terry Pratchett
An honest God is the noblest work of man. (Robert G. Ingersoll)
Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
A man is what he thinks about all day long. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson