No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
Henry AdamsThere is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
Bertrand RussellStand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting. But you can go from acting to being a TV personality to being a radio personality to being a writer to being a producer, to just being a visionary, to voiceover work.
Kevin HartA man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis BaconAs long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
James MadisonA statesman who confines himself to popular legislation – or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays – is like a blind man’s dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.
George Bernard ShawIt appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Henry David ThoreauMan is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
John F. KennedyFor the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
Friedrich NietzscheIf man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.
Mark TwainI now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it’s like therapy for me.
J. ColeIt 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 ChardinMan is by nature a political animal.
AristotleMan weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
H. L. MenckenNo sane man will dance.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
William JamesBiographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Mark TwainEvery citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Thomas JeffersonBeauty is the greatest seducer of man.
Paulo CoelhoA man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.
John F. KennedyA private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
Abraham LincolnWhy does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody AllenMan’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
Blaise PascalI hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Dwight D. EisenhowerJust 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 GandhiA man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.
Thomas CarlyleA man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
William ShakespeareA man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
George Bernard ShawOh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
Charles DickensThe most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
James BaldwinNothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
Joseph AddisonIt is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
Henry David ThoreauWine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Samuel JohnsonA round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Mark TwainThe greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
Bob MarleyThe 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 ThoreauA man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe sergeant is the Army.
Dwight D. EisenhowerA clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
William Makepeace ThackerayShow me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
Thomas CarlyleI would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThe gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.
PlatoA man’s character is his guardian divinity.
HeraclitusA woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Friedrich NietzscheThe only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.
George Bernard ShawA scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Lao TzuHow can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar WildeMan, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
Bruce LeeThe progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
VoltaireThe soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
Douglas MacArthurThe tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert SchweitzerOpposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
George EliotA consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.
Noam ChomskyThe discontented man finds no easy chair.
Benjamin FranklinMan can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
George Bernard ShawIndeed, we’re strongest when the face of America isn’t only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.
Colin PowellNever throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Theodore RooseveltI think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinMan, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
John SteinbeckWood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe