Monday, 15 April 2019

Man - Quotes

Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly. - Tennessee Williams

No man can lose what he never had. - George Herbert

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. - Charles de Gaulle

Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him, and the scope of his existence stretches beyond the stars. - E. H. Chapin

The first duty of a man is to think for himself. - José Martí

The good man is the friend of all living things. - Gandhi

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. - Aristotle

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous. The sensible man, almost nothing. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones. - Brandon Sanderson

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. - J. D. Salinger

The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can afford to be. - Elbert Hubbard

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. - Henrik Ibsen

There is no beast more cruel than man. - Leonid Andreyev

We become familiar with the outsides of men, as with the outsides of houses, and think we know them, while we are ignorant of so much that is passing within them. - Christian Nestell Bovee

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but does not know what to create. Lord of all things, he is not lord of himself. - José Ortega Y Gasset

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also. - Amos Bronson Alcott

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times. - Aesop

You don't fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof. You take him as he is ... or you don't take him at all. - Nora Roberts

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