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Man Quotes


"In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man."
Man,



"A woman can laugh and cry in three seconds and it's not weird. But if a man does it, it's very disturbing. The way I'd describe it is like this: I have been allowed inside the house of womanhood, but I feel that they wouldn't let me in any of the interesting rooms."


"The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought."


"The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!"
Man,


"The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally."


"Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw."
Man,



"This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!"


"The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss."



"After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us."


"The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man."


"Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored."


"Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow."


"When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire."


"One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without."


"Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly."


"What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns."
Man,


"It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition."


"As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women."


"I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world."


"Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff."


"Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing."


"I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it."
Man,


"There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it."


"When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out."


"Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation."


"Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it."


"It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat."


"Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives."


"Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste."


"When I'm up there, and I know the show's coming to a close, in my head I'm saying to myself, Oh man, you gotta get off and be a normal person again. That's what I don't like so much."
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