Man Quotes
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
Thomas AquinasThomas Aquinas The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!
Queen VictoriaQueen Victoria And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
SophoclesSophocles The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard.
HomerHomer I don’t fall into the physical manifestation of a man of letters. So I guess people assume the scripts are delivered to me under the door.
Sylvester StalloneSylvester Stallone If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.
Napoleon HillNapoleon Hill Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
HomerHomer