Man Quotes - page 20

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house. (Jean Kerr)
Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist. View quote
José Martí
Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo. View quote
José Martí
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. View quote
Charles Darwin
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. View quote
Charles Darwin
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. View quote
Charles Darwin
Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it. View quote
Germaine Greer
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. View quote
Groucho Marx
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife. View quote
Groucho Marx
It is not the well-fed long-haired man I fear, but the pale and the hungry looking. View quote
Julius Caesar
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. (Tom Clancy)
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't. View quote
John Updike
Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. View quote
John Updike
I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition. View quote
Samuel Pepys
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man. View quote
Catherine Deneuve
Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy! View quote
Robert Mugabe
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour. View quote
Fidel Castro
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. View quote
Horace Mann
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error. (Andrew Jackson)
There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens. View quote
Martin Van Buren
Let it, then, be henceforth proclaimed to the world, that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God. View quote
John Tyler
I love having boyfriends. A girl can wait for the right man to come along – but in the meantime that doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones. View quote
Cher
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël