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Man Quotes

I’d like to be with an interesting man who is understanding about having a busy partner.

– Tracy Reese

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

– Victor Hugo

Let me tell you, I’ve never heard a man whine more than Jason Mamoa getting knocked around by little ol’ me.

– Sarah Shahi

A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.

– T. E. Lawrence

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

– William J. Mayo

There’s so many great Western films. Let’s see, ‘Red River,’ any of those Henry Fonda movies are fantastic. Any of those John Ford movies are fantastic. I love all the Eastwood ‘Man With No Name’ movies, John Wayne, ‘True Grit.’

– Timothy Olyphant

No man is so old as to believe he cannot live one more year.

– Sean O’Casey

Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.

– T. B. Joshua

I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.

– Victor LaValle

No man can given anybody his freedom.

– Stokely Carmichael

He’s a fool that marries, but he’s a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?

– William Wycherley

The biggest and most interesting crisis in the world is the human crisis, and it never gets boring. It goes back to Shakespeare. You don’t need a gimmick; it’s just man against man and their intolerance of each other.

– Sylvester Stallone

I was always a big fan of Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner’s ‘2000-Year-Old Man’ sketch. I think it’s one of the biggest influences on the podcast, definitely. You’d never say Carl Reiner was the funniest dude on there, because he’s just teeing it up, but he knows what questions to ask to lead to great improv.

– Scott Aukerman

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.

– Shana Alexander

Lagos style is fresh and different. Even with the tailors, they get very innovative with their stuff, with the cuts. When my parents used to make the traditional wares, it was a little bit baggy. But now the tailors are able to infuse the European style, making it slim-fit. Lagos style is different, man. Innovative.

– WizKid

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

– William S. Burroughs

Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.

– Tim Robbins

Man, I’m a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can’t experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical.

– T.I.

The ugly is very appealing to man. It’s instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There’s a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.

– Sonya Levien

I can sometimes feel like I’m an aggressive man inside. I’m not going to show that on social media.

– Tali Lennox

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

– Xun Kuang

John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you’ll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there’s a lot of truth to that.

– Tom Bodett

I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That’s when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

– Samantha Morton

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

– William Cowper

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

– Samuel Richardson

It’s a total big difference between a person that got lyrics and a person that can make hit singles. I’m a person that can make some hit singles. I’m not in no booth trying to be a lyrical genius. I’m preparing to make me some singles, and as I develop as a man, then they’ll respect my emcee skills.

– Waka Flocka Flame

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

– William McKinley

Things like the financial markets – a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts… it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex.

– Viswanathan Anand

I’ve always been curious about why one man jumps out of a foxhole with a grenade and charges a machine gun nest, and his buddy next to him sits there cowering. And my feeling is that the difference is tiny between the two.

– Stephen Lang

There is nothing wrong with a woman encouraging a man’s advances, as long as they are in cash.

– Zsa Zsa Gabor

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