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Man Quotes

If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.

– Tenzing Norgay

When a man is wrong and won’t admit it, he always gets angry.

– Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man can be eminently virtuous who is not accustomed to an extensive range of reflection.

– William Godwin

It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no man, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow man.

– Toussaint Louverture

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

– Woody Allen

No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.

– Thomas a Kempis

I have not met a man as tall as me who is as quick as me, ever.

– Tyson Fury

In America, it is difficult to be your own man.

– Sidney Poitier

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

– William Jennings Bryan

Mathematics is as old as Man.

– Stefan Banach

If you’re going to write an anthem for an old man who’s up at political bat for the last time, give him a decent song. Send him off with something that creates some chills or something.

– Shawn Amos

Treat each case as an individual case, and give every man an opportunity to earn just as much money as he is capable of earning.

– Thomas J. Watson

Now, I am about to be nailed as the man who disliked ‘Howl’s Moving Castle.’ Lord, give me strength! Also, IT, please disconnect the e-mail thing.

– Stephen Hunter

It would be good to rely on the man during my most tired moments. The best is if he will listen to my stories when I am stressed.

– Song Hye-kyo

A man’s most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.

– Thomas Brooks

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

– Thomas Aquinas

My favorite movie is ‘Iron Man.’ I tell people that I think it’s just as good as ‘Dark Knight,’ if not better, and people tell me I’m crazy. I really like ‘Iron Man.’

– Taylor Lautner

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

– Thomas Mann

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

– Thomas Carlyle

I wrote a story about a man who is orphaned during the 1927 Mississippi River flood in Louisiana, and he’s on the banks of levee, and he’s starving. And there are other people starving, too. And he’s so desperate, he’s seven years old, that he finds a pig that’s been abandoned. He kills it with a hammer, and he drags it back.

– Susan Straight

When you’re trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

– Taya Kyle

I never feel so utterly fraudulent as when I review a movie whose charms impress all in the world and I simply do not get it. The other variant is that I love something the world disdains. This has had severe career consequences: I am still famous – or notorious – in certain quarters where I am recalled as the man who liked ‘Hudson Hawk.’

– Stephen Hunter

If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she’s difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.

– Tamara Mellon

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

– Sophocles

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

– Sallust

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

– Warren Farrell

It is clear that it is not man who has created the universe – whether you believe in God or in gods or deny any divine presence – man cannot alter the laws that govern the universe without damaging it.

– Sean MacBride

Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning. I was much further out than you thought, and not waving but drowning. I was much too far out all my life, And not waving but drowning.

– Stevie Smith

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

– William Blake

I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn’t pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn’t have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate.

– Whitney Cummings

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