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Quotations on Man 4493 Quotes Found If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame. A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so. The man who respects a woman does not know what else to do with her. One rich Man hath Lands, not only more than he can manage, but so much, that letting them out to others, he is supplied with a large over-plus, so needs no farther care. If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock. No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer. Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades. Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular. The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man's shoulder? Such is not the always the case, but quite often it is. At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God. It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man. The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions. A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon. In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor. In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath. CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.' You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one. No man is so old as to believe he cannot live one more year. Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life. You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present. Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man. No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman. No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will. Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished. The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father. This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection. There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around. Sex - the poor man's polo. It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye. All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader? When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear. I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man. The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly. It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man. There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs. The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. You just need to be honest with how you're feeling. But, a lot of women are afraid of it because they think, 'Oh, they are going to take my baby away. They're gonna call me incompetent. I'm going to lose my job. I've got to be tough, it's a man's world.' We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention. Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul. The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country. Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain. In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator. The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man. Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.
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