Man Quotes

Failure is the true test of greatness

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.

Brains are still unfashionable for women to wear, and it has always been proof of women’s superiority that the more intelligent a man is, the more women admire him, while the bigger fool a woman is, the more men run after her.

He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, “Let us make man”. It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, “Let us save man”.

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.