Man Quotes

Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man’s muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick shooting involves.

Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

Life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.

I’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.

I do see myself settling down, getting married and having kids. But when I think about a family life in the future there’s rarely a man involved which is kind of weird.

Poetry is the moment when the man is in conservation with God.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”