Man Quotes - page 23

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. (Thomas Carlyle)
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. View quote
James Frazer
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. View quote
Marguerite Duras
What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives. View quote
Oriana Fallaci
A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast. View quote
Georg Büchner
The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. View quote
Cicero
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Nothing is stranger to man than his own image. (Karel Čapek)
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man. View quote
Marcel Marceau
Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French. View quote
Montesquieu
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man. View quote
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Think a hundred times before you take any decision, but once a decision is taken, stand by it as one man. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
It is preferable not to travel with a dead man. View quote
Henri Michaux
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. (Alexander Pope)
Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. View quote
Alexander Pope
Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man. View quote
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. View quote
Edmund Burke
'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray