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Man Quotes


"A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert."


"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."
Man,


"Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men."


"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."


"Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen."
Man,


"A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent."
Man,


"If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself."
Man,


"From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots."


"For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages."


"The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance."



"Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them."


"It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance."


"There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune."


"Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot."


"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them."



"He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru" - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement."


"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man."


"At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all."



"Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps."


"It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do."



"If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them."


"In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer."
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