Source Unknown Quotes on Man (93 Quotes)

Convince a man of what he wants, and he'll move heaven and earth to get it.

Man - despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments - owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

Man always has two reasons for the things he does the logical one and the real one.

The man with vision always goes ahead of the man with visions.

Men often give love for sex, women often give sex for love.

No man is worth your tears, and when you find the man who is, he'll never make you cry.

It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

Marriage is when a man and woman become as one the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.

If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.

It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

When a flirt fishes for a man, she fishes merely for the sport.

Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

An honest man is the best thing on the sod but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God.

Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.

A fisherman may measure his catch by the size, but when is a man big enough to keep

The average man is proof enough that a woman can take a joke.

The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy with which he treats lesser men.

A fault that humbles a man is of greater value than a virtue that puffs him up.

Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

The most dangerous food a man can eat is wedding cake.

The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to God.

It's only during an eclipse that the Man in the Moon has a place in the sun.

When a woman wants a man and lusts after him, the lover need not bother to conjure up opportunities, for she will find more in an hour than we men could think of in a century.

If a man is alone in the forest and speaks...and no woman is around to hear him...Is the man still wrong (of course)

Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency. At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world.

Many a young lady does not realize just how strong her love for a young man is until he fails to pass the approval test with her parents.

Courtship -- A man pursuing a woman until she catches him.

Hollywood makes prostitutes out of women and sissies out of men.

It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.

Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life.

The man is free to rule his world, not his world rule him.

Nothing is worth making that does not make the man.

The trouble with self-made men is that they tend to worship their creator.

Before marriage, a man yearns for the woman he loves. After marriage the y becomes silent

You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much.

Anyone can live heroically and successfully for one day. The man who achieves a high purpose makes that day the pattern for all the days of his life.