Man Quotes - page 9

Desire is the very essence of man. (Baruch Spinoza)
Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered that I was not God. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. View quote
Walter Bagehot
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. View quote
Kenneth Tynan
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible. View quote
John Steinbeck
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually. View quote
Frank Sinatra
This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures. View quote
Heraclitus
He was a bold man that first eat an oyster. View quote
Jonathan Swift
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live. (Boris Pasternak)
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. View quote
William Blake
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. View quote
Malcolm X
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. View quote
H. L. Mencken
To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning to a man it's the beginning of the end. View quote
Helen Rowland
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. View quote
Hesiod
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. View quote
James Russell Lowell
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. View quote
Erma Bombeck
The function of man is to live, not to exist. View quote
Jack London
For women, beauty is more important than the mind, because the man is easier to watch than to think. (Marlene Dietrich)
A real man is one who remembers the lady's birthday, but never knows how old she is. A man who never remembers her birthday, but knows exactly how old she is, - is her husband. View quote
Faina Ranevskaya
A man is known by the books he reads. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest man in history was the poorest. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. View quote
Albert Schweitzer