Man Quotes - page 95

I never learned from a man who agreed with me. (Robert A. Heinlein)
Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Correct morality can only be derived from what man is - not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.) View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart that loved him. View quote
Benjamin Constant
That said, deciding to avoid other people does not necessarily equate with having no desire whatsoever for company; it may simply reflect a dissatisfaction with what-or who-is available. Cynics are, in the end, only idealists with awkwardly high standards. In Chamfort's words, 'It is sometimes said of a man who lives alone that he does not like society. This is like saying of a man that he does not like going for walks because he is not fond of walking at night in the forêt de Bondy. View quote
Alain de Botton
If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like prisoners condemned to death, we await our unavoidable execution. There is no God, and there is no immortality. And what is the consequence of this? It means that life itself is absurd. It means that the life we have is without ultimate significance, value, or purpose. (William Lane Craig)
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique. View quote
George Gershwin
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand; it is the cruelest trial reserved for self-devotion; it is what must have oftenest wrung the heart of the Son of man; and if God could suffer, it would be the wound we should be forever inflicting upon Him. He also - He above all - is the great misunderstood, the least comprehended. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised. View quote
James Thurber
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. View quote
Thomas Fuller
The fool wanders, a wise man travels. (Thomas Fuller)
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. View quote
Thomas Fuller
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil. View quote
Thomas Fuller
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. View quote
Edmond de Goncourt
Cease, Man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; enjoy thy shining hour of sun; We dance along Death's icy brink, but is the dance less full of fun? View quote
Richard Francis Burton