Man Quotes - page 24

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over. View quote
Gore Vidal
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Every man and every woman is a star. View quote
Aleister Crowley
The greater man, the greater courtesy. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be. View quote
Steven Brust
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. View quote
Robert Benchley
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. (John Ruskin)
Man is the creature of circumstances. View quote
Robert Owen
There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God. View quote
Norman Mailer
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation. View quote
Norman Mailer
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. View quote
Bernard Baruch
There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure. View quote
Bernard Baruch
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. View quote
Harper Lee
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge. View quote
Max Heindel
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. View quote
Samuel Johnson
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. (Samuel Johnson)
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. View quote
Samuel Johnson
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. View quote
Samuel Johnson
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. View quote
Samuel Johnson
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. View quote
Samuel Johnson