Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
Blaise PascalA sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Francis BaconHave you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.
H. L. MenckenI didn’t read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.
Haruki MurakamiIf man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.
Mark TwainMy dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.
Dolores HuertaMy father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.
Wayne DyerA man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.
Marilyn MonroeIf we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
Joseph AddisonThe world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.
John MuirPersistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Napoleon HillThe fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
Lyndon B. JohnsonA woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.
Marilyn MonroeI am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
Charlie ChaplinMy dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?
Henny YoungmanNo sane man will dance.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIt is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.
Clint EastwoodNature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
Galileo GalileiNever throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Theodore RooseveltA man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinApart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.
Nelson MandelaIf you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
William JamesA man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
George Bernard ShawMan, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
Fyodor DostoevskyExtremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
Alexander PopeA man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMan – a being in search of meaning.
PlatoThe discontented man finds no easy chair.
Benjamin FranklinMan is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
John SteinbeckA round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Mark TwainMy father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father’s generation. It’s a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.
Haruki MurakamiExcept for the title ‚father,‘ there is no title, including ‚vice president,‘ that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.
Joe BidenMan can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThe tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert SchweitzerNo man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
Henry AdamsThe demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
Bertrand RussellI never saw any of my dad’s stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.
Stephen KingMy father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Aldous HuxleyBut what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert CamusIt appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Henry David ThoreauMan can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
Albert SchweitzerMy father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.
Adam SandlerMan, all lives matter.
Kevin GatesThe place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Bertrand RussellMy father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Harry S. TrumanWhere a man can live, he can also live well.
Marcus AureliusThe youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
Henry David ThoreauThe sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
John RuskinThe progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
VoltaireOh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
Charles DickensThe little man is still a man.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
Albert SchweitzerHis father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.
Alexander the GreatMan is by nature a political animal.
AristotleJust as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
Mahatma GandhiWhat every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
William JamesA man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Oscar Wilde