The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
I’ve been a bad boy trying to be a good man my whole life.
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man’s bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man’s stairs.
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn’t pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
I’m the greatest thing that ever lived! I’m the king of the world! I’m a bad man. I’m the prettiest thing that ever lived.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
The strong man is strongest when alone.
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don’ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.
The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.
Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.
You can’t sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You’ve got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That’s why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet.
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
I just save my money, man. I don’t even try to enjoy it like these other rappers; they having fun and they lit, but they gon’ be broke later on. I be savin’, I be chillin’. It feels good to know I got it, but it feel better to know I’ma keep it too.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
