Man Quotes
A good man always knows his limitations.
Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.
SolonSolon Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
Buffalo BillBuffalo Bill The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
George WashingtonGeorge Washington What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
Soren KierkegaardSoren Kierkegaard To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.
Marcus GarveyMarcus Garvey Every man is like the company he wont to keep.
EuripidesEuripides There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
Soren KierkegaardSoren Kierkegaard I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?
Peter ToshPeter Tosh Only the man who says no is free
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle; and that almost every man is more or less, under its influence.
George WashingtonGeorge Washington A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
Booker T. WashingtonBooker T. Washington