Source Unknown Quotes on Man (93 Quotes)

All men are two meters tall... give or take a meter.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.

Look a man in the eye and say what you really think, don't just smile at him and say what you're supposed to think.

Women say all men are the same, but they have no problem telling you how different you are from Mel Gibson.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.

A patient man is one who can put up with himself.

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

Fortune does not so much change men, as it unmasks them.

On this mounting the scaffold to be beheaded ''I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.'' To the executioner ''Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thy office my neck is very short take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thy honesty.''

Wise men are instructed in reason men of less understanding by experience The most unknowing learn by necessity. Wise men do in the beginning what fools in the end.

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain all that he can't see.

France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter -- it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.

If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.

A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied ''By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.''

There used to be two kinds of kisses. First when girls were kissed and deserted second, when they were engaged. Now there's a third kind, where the man is kissed and deserted. If Mr. Jones of the nineties bragged he'd kissed a girl, everyone knew he was through with her. If Mr. Jones of 1919 brags the same everyone knows it's because he can't kiss her any more. Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

If you must strike a man from behind, slap hi on the back.

English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.

A gentleman is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable.

A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.

If things are natural, they're easy. If they're unnatural they're difficult. I have never met a man who found it difficult to marry, but I have never found a man who found it easy to divorce either.

The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.

Chaos is the law of nature order is the dream of man.

So live that you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell.

Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.

Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

Men never remember, but women never forget.

No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.

If you think that every bad thing that has been done on the face of the earth has been done by man, you're right -- but so has every good thing.

One night a father overheard his son pray Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. What do you mean responded her mother. Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another.

Even God doesn't plan to judge a man till the end of his days, why should you and I

A conservative sees a man drowning 50 feet from shore, throws him a 25 foot long rope, and tells him to swim to it. A liberal throws him a rope 50 feet long, then drops his end and goes off to perform another good deed.

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.

Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.