There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
Man is not free unless government is limited.
I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car’s headlights and tell you exactly which way it’s coming.
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
A hero is a man who does what he can.
A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.
A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda… and woke up with me.
It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Every man’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s fingers.
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
In order to be the man, you have to beat the man.
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
To be the man, you gotta beat the man!
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.
If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Man proposes, but God disposes.
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
The child is father of the man.
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
I say it every day – I’m the luckiest man on earth.
There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
A man is known by the silence he keeps.
When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s-heart.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
Temptation is a woman’s weapon and man’s excuse.
A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Man looks in the abyss, there’s nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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.
