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Man Quotes
"One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics."
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"Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows."
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"I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting."
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"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth."
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"Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men."
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"After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued."
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"When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing."
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"Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are."
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"When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view."
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"I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot."
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"The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be."
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"For men to be virgins, we think it's negative. We think that there's something wrong with them."
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"All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate."
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"The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve."
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"I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line."
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"It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage."
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"To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places."
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"Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men."
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true."
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"I do not personally agree with some of the positions that Mr. Gonzales has advocated, but that should come as no surprise, because I do not agree with many of the proposals made by the man who nominated him, President Bush."
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"Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent."
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"There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband."
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"The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands."
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"There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it."
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"Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions."
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"I have always supported measures and principles and not men."
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"He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads."
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"There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly."
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"Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought."
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"If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself."
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"If a man breaks a pledge, the public ought to know it."
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"Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical."
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