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Your feelings may be the strongest,’ replied Anne, ‘but the same spirit of analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most tender. Man is more robust than woman, but he is not longer lived; which exactly explains my view of the nature of their attachments. Nay, it would be too hard upon you, if it were otherwise.
— Jane Austen, Persuasion
A man limits his abilities himself according to his created interest, and then he pays very little attention to unliked things. Understand that man can become whatever he wants to be, just “Interest and Want“ play the role.
— Faisal Nawaz Maitlo
What is a saint supposed to do, if not convert wolves?
— Umberto Eco, How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays
And do stop trying to determine if I am a man or a woman. The fact is I'm a good part both and therefore neither one. I was just explaining to your Aunt Queen. I was born endowed with the finest traits of both sexes and I drift this way and that as I choose.
— Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm
There should be medals struck for men who produce tea at exactly the moment it's needed.
— Jodi Taylor, A Trail Through Time
A good woman inspires a man
—  a brilliant woman interests him
Men always want to be a woman`s first love - women like to be a man`s last romance.
— Oscar Wilde
Isn't it strange that having a dick automatically makes you a man, but having a vagina isn't enough to make me a woman?
— Christina Engela, Inanna Rising: Women Forged in Fire
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
— Benjamin Disraeli
While many people define being a man or a woman as being dependent on reproductive capacity, it is worth noting (should such a superficial argument present itself) that there are many males and females who are born male or female and cannot reproduce either. Are they to be considered 'not male' and 'not female'? Or does that only apply to transgender people?
— Christina Engela, Demonspawn
You are the Perfect Young Man: honest, clean, virile.
— Edmund White, Our Young Man
The complexities of life can never be untangled by man
—  like a sheep without a shepherd we have been self-programmed for destruction. Jesus Christ is the only way. Genesis 3:6 and John 14:6.
Man had to hang on to his pride.
— Robert Ferrigno, Heart of the Assassin
Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the blue, in the middle of the day, at the center of a public place, like a cerebral attack. Check mated by 'daily routine', he may feel trapped in a smothering set of circumstances and only a deconstruction of all impeding barriers can bring about a vital mental deliverance. ( "Check and mate" )
— Erik Pevernagie
A Man who has the confidence to not feel the need to defend his point of view and at the same time possess the openness to accept other's point of view, without being judgemental, yet managingto stay true to his convictions - Is the Man of Real Substance!
— Wordions
When man was created it was not for this purposeTo become taken over and be utterly worthless
— Justin Bienvenue, Like A Box Of Chocolates
She struggled against him and then kicked him with her knee, right between his legs. He won’t be treating her like this. Bastard. There was a fury inside her, that made her disliking of guys even bigger. He stumbled back, his hand loosening his trip. His face is twisted in pain, and he was completely out of the breath. Angel felt satisfaction. He deserved that."How about this, you ignorant asshole! Keep your hands off of me and leave me alone!" she spat at his face. She barely held back, to not kick him again.
— Amber M. Kestner, Jana & Angel Volume 1
This mysticism, whose mysticism? This belongs to this body. See, God is nothing, this human being is all and within this human body there is infinite power. Man is all, nothing beyond it and we could not fathom of the infinite power of a human body.
— Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
Wasn’t it correct in America to call a man ‘handsome’ rather than ‘beautiful’?
— Edmund White, Our Young Man
Man can destroy a mountain within a day, but a Man cannot build a mountain in a single day or the rest of his days
— Cj Lacuesta
Like a snake sheds its skin, we are capable of getting rid of assembled habits, creating space to call matters into question. Instead of the Shakespearian " To be or not to be " we could favor " to become or not to become". By "becoming", we challenge the range of possibilities in our life and go beyond the merely "being". We can retreat, then, from the imprisonment of a deadly routine, acquire an identity and develop our personality. ( "Man without Qualities" )
— Erik Pevernagie
Where I'm from," Tom tilted his head to the side, "they call your kind a hipster or a lumbersexual, with the beard and flannel and such."Without missing beat, Jethro responded, "Ah. See, where I'm from, they call my kind a man.
— Penny Reid, Grin and Beard It
(by the way . . . I realize I switch from present to past tense, and if you don't like it . . . ram a nipple up your scrotum. -printer: leave this in.)
— Charles Bukowski, Notes of a Dirty Old Man
As accurate as a blind man pissing during an earthquake.”“Wow...,” I breathed.She frowned 
— Brandon Sanderson, Firefight
Oh,” Obliteration continued, “I think that you’ll find a man can do many things thought impossible, if he tries hard enough.
— Brandon Sanderson, Firefight
See a man as a good opportunity and that is what he becomes. See him as bad luck and he becomes your headache.
— Paul Bamikole
Lives there upon any world such another as John Carter, Prince of Helium? Lives there another man who could fight his way back and forth across a warlike planet, facing savage beasts and hordes of savage men, for the love of a woman?
— Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Warlord of Mars
It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure.
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Life is short, nature is hostile, and man is ridiculous; but oddly enough most misfortunes have their compensations, and with a certain humour and a good deal of horse-sense one can make a fairly good job of what is after all a matter of very small consequence.
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Narrow Corner
Your little r changes the status of a single lady ‘Ms’ into a respectable lady ‘Mrs’. Man, you make the difference!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
For man always looked to hire a fool to amuse him without knowing he was one all along.
— Hanna Abi Akl, A Road Away From Home
Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man.
— Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
I feel Man would be wise to work at correcting his own mistakes instead of waiting for intervention from on high, and should replace faith in an unknowable divine plan with a well-thought-out scheme of his own.
— Mark Hodder, Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon
She remembered Fiona saying something once, there was nothing more attractive than a competent man. At the time she'd been a young girl, without true understanding, but now she agreed.
— Lily Blackwood, The Beast of Clan Kincaid
A man who can make love with another man can also make love with the enemy.
— David Lagercrantz, Fall of Man in Wilmslow
Yes, I am crying although I am a man. But has not a man eyes! Has not a man hands, limbs,senses, thoughts, passions? Is he not fed with the wine food, hurt by the same weapons, warmed and cooled by the same summer and winter as a woman? If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? And if you poison us, do we not die? Why shouldn't a man complain, a soldier weep? Because it is unmanly? Why is it unmanly?
— August Strindberg, The Father
Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked; they are, on the contrary, creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness. As a result, their neighbor is for them not only a potential helper or sexual object, but also someone who tempts them to satisfy their aggressiveness on him, to exploit his capacity for work without compensation, to use him sexually without his consent, to seize his possessions, to humiliate him, to cause him pain, to torture and to kill him. Homo homini lupus [man is wolf to man]. Who, in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will have the courage to dispute this assertion?
— Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
You will say that that was in the comparatively barbarous times; that these are barbarous times too, because also, comparatively speaking, pins are stuck in even now; that though man has now learned to see more clearly than in barbarous ages, he is still far from having learnt to act as reason and science would dictate.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
It is comforting, however, and a source of profound relief to think that man is only a recent invention, a figure not yet two centuries old, a new wrinkle in our knowledge, and that he will disappear again as soon as that knowledge has discovered a new form.
— Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
Among the mutations that have affected the knowledge of things ... only one, which began a century and a half ago ... has allowed the figure of man to appear.
— Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
What makes you a Man? In My opinion it is the same thing that makes you a woman. It's what makes us all who we are. The capacity to care. If you stop caring, you stop being. The measure of anyone is determined by their capacity to care.
— Tim Dutton
Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked; they are, on the contrary, creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness. As a result, their neighbor is for them not only a potential helper or sexual object, but also someone who tempts them to satisfy their aggressiveness on him, to exploit his capacity for work without compensation, to use him sexually without his consent, to seize his possessions, to humiliate him, to cause him pain, to torture and to kill him. Homo homini lupus [Man is a wolf to man]. Who, in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will have the courage to dispute this assertion?
— Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
Kill the boy and let the man be born.
— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked; they are, on the contrary, creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness. As a result, their neighbor is for them not only a potential helper or sexual object, but also someone who tempts them to satisfy their aggressiveness on him, to exploit his capacity for work without compensation, to use him sexually without his consent, to seize his possessions, to humiliate him, to cause him pain, to torture and to kill him. Homo homini lupus [man is wolf to man]. Who in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will have the courage to dispute this assertion?
— Sigmund Freud
We are one. Man, horse, lance, we are one beast of blood and wood and iron.
— George R.R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
It may be said with truth that man is always susceptible ofimprovement
— Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population
The vices and moral weakness of man are not invincible: Man is perfectible, or in other words, susceptible of perpetual improvement.
— Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population
Religion is the biggest drama, the man has ever written and the God is the best character, the man has ever played that people are still applauding for _Idiotneil
— Neil Jain
Your remedy is within you, but you do not sense it. Your sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it. You presume you are a small entity, but within you is enfolded the entire Universe. You are indeed the Evident Book, by whose alphabet the Hidden becomes Manifest. Therefore you have no need to look beyond yourself. What you seek is within you, if only you reflect.
— Moosa Rahat
Then say not man's imperfect, Heav'n in fault;. Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.
— Alexander Pope
But how, from the viewpoint of a Martian, did man differ from other animals? Would a race that could levitate and god knows what else be impressed by engineering? If so would the Aswan Dam or a thousand miles of coral reef win first prize? Man's self awareness, sheer conceit. There was no way to prove that sperm whales and sequoias were not philosophers and poets exceeding any human merit?
— Robert A. Heinlein
Man is now a horror to God and himself and a creature ill-adapted to the universe not because God made him so but because he has made himself so by the abuse of his free will.
— C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
Don't be nice to me. Be what your personality requires you to be. Be what your nature requires you to be. Be real. Don't pressurize yourself.
— M. Danish
It’s a difficult thing to be a man. To try to be noble and honorable in a world of conflict and strife. To distinguish selfish desire from sincere concern. To know when to fight and when to forfeit.
— Brownell Landrum, A Chorus of Voices: DUET stories Volume III - Adult Version
Nothing makes you feel more like a man than holding and comforting a woman in your arms.
— Brownell Landrum, Repercussions: DUET stories Volume IV - Adult Version
be a dog, be a jerk, be a devil, be a worst imaginable creature, but never be a good man, for being civilized in chaos is itself a chaos.
— Abdul Mueed
Easter is a time where we are reminded that conclusions in man's mind are beginnings in God's plan.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
It is no idle phrase that man was made in God's image. There is something worth saving in the worst of us, and out of this something a new man may be fashioned.
— Philip José Farmer
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
— Samuel Butler
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord pondereth the hearts.
— Anonymous
Account of Love gave me several results, and its amazing:a.	When man doesn’t make time to talk to woman, woman feels man is not caring her.b.	When woman doesn’t make time to talk to man, man need to understand her problem.c.	When man makes mistake he had to give clarifications by speaking truth or even lying. d.	 When woman makes mistake mad had to accept all excuses given by woman.e.	When man suffers, most of the time he had to accept whatever happens.f.	When woman suffers, man had to make woman happy by doing anything possibleg.	When love ends man need to hide all the tears as he feels he is strong.h.	When love ends woman uses tears to blame the man for all the mistakes.
— Nutan Bajracharya
The front desk man is a spy for a famous French chef, hoping to stealing the pastry recipes of the shop down the street. And the lovely shop girl who just delivered a box of-- what is most certainly-- pastries is his secret accomplice. The note she passed him while blushing has a recipe for the perfect croissant.
— jessic lawson
A technician : it's the one who always see new components on the store, but still care about the old ones.A technician : it's the one who always try to fix problems and never think to give up.A technician : it's a man who cares about what he has, try to update it and never throw it.a TECHNICIAN it's a LOYAL man.
— Nabil TOUSSI
And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices.
— George Orwell, Animal Farm
Her capacity for love overshadows the stars, lightening crackles malevolently in the wake of her wrath and for all the tangled mess woman brings to man, in her glory, she is the divine Goddess.
— Virginia Alison
No man is a great man if he used violence to achieve his goals!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The borders of man, defined by politics, war, and faith - all three manifestations of delusion - meant even more to gods.
— Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption
Don't judge a man by his controversies. Anyone could find him or herself dealing with issues. What matters is how they deal with it.
— Constance Chuks Friday
Luke’s not a bad man, or even an unlikable one,” she went on. “Just a man. You’re all the same, great big hairy moths bashing yourselves to pieces after a silly flame behind a glass so clear your eyes don’t see it. And if you do manage to blunder your way inside the glass to fly into the flame, you fall down burned and dead.While all the time out there in the cool night there’s food, and love, and baby moths to get. But do you see it, do you want it? No! It’s back after the flame again, beating yourselves senseless until you burn yourselves dead!
— Colleen McCullough
She told him that he had the most beautiful voice she'd ever heard, that it sounded like whiskey and wood smoke.
— Dennis Lehane, Mystic River
He made her think of ruins, of mysterious places in shadow and darkness, of storms and torrents of rain.
— Diana Palmer, Carrera's Bride
In his mind, that's what made a man a man, that he protected those he cared about. Those he loved.
— Regina Scott, Instant Frontier Family
The life of a man, no matter how humble, no matter how powerful can be condensed to a single moment ... the moment he has found the woman he will love for life.
— Mya Robarts, The V Girl
The test of a man isn’t what you think he’ll do. It’s what he actually does.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
If a man has gold, he lives with the terror that someone will take it away from him, so he builds walls around it. Then everyone knows where the gold is, so they come and take it. That’s the way it always goes, brother. Fools and gold, together.
— Conn Iggulden, Khan: Empire of Silver
Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good
— Soke Behzad Ahmadi, Shorinjiryu Ryujin Kenpo
Guess I am going to take a man-nap. Wake me up when there is food.
— Vann Chow, Shanghai Nobody
the man's best friend is his friend's dog.
— Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela
The nation of my father is too strong for a man who cannot command even his own body.
— Conn Iggulden, Khan: Empire of Silver
No man is as big as his own idea.
— Ray Bradbury
Storm destroys, man also destroys, so man is a storm too! But contrary to storm, man can learn no to destroy!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Men don't want to be brothers - they may someday, but they don't now. My belief in the brotherhood of man died the day I arrived in London last week, when I observed the people standing in a Tube train resolutely refuse to move up and make room for those who entered. You won't turn people into angels by appealing to their better natures just yet awhile - but by judicious force you can coerce them into behaving more or less decently to one another to go on with. I will still believe in the brotherhood of man, but it's not coming yet awhile. Say another ten thousand years or so. It's no good being impatient. Evolution is a slow process.
— Agatha Christie
A man needs to feel a little fear, Tolui, if only to have the pride of conquering it.
— Conn Iggulden, Khan: Empire of Silver
A brave man could conquer fear, he had learned that, but perhaps only for a time. It was something the young did not understand, the way it could gnaw at a man, the way it came back stronger every time, until you were alone and gasping for breath.
— Conn Iggulden, Khan: Empire of Silver
It was what you gave out that made a man, not what you got back.
— Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold
We are the flowers that make up the Creator's vast and beautiful garden.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Ingratitude makes man an animal, even worse, for some animals do have a way of saying thank you when you do them a favor; take a dog for instance.
— Paul Bamikole
Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
— Iain Duncan Smith
The criminal who revolted against society hates it, and considers himself in the right; society was wrong, not he. Has he not, moreover, undergone his punishment? Accordingly he is absolved, acquitted in his own eyes. In spite of different opinions, everyone will acknowledge that there are acts which everywhere and always, under no matter what legal system, are beyond doubt criminal, and should be regarded as long as man is man.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead
I’ve never seen a man who understands so little about women and yet is so led about by them.
— Mark  Lawrence, Prince of Fools
Man is divided into two categories
—  men and supermen. Men are taught that all men are equal. Supermen think that they are the only men.
I followed the other Experiment around, yesterday afternoon, at a distance, to see what it might be for, if I could. But I was not able to make [it] out. I think it is a man. I had never seen a man, but it looked like one, and I feel sure that that is what it is. I realize that I feel more curiosity about it than about any of the other reptiles. If it is a reptile, and I suppose it is; for it has frowzy hair and blue eyes, and looks like a reptile. It has no hips; it tapers like a carrot; when it stands, it spreads itself apart like a derrick; so I think it is a reptile, though it may be architecture.
— Mark Twain
Why a man has come to this world? To know ‘Who am I’. The revelation of this self-knowledge is continuously running within a human body without his knowledge. This revelation starts from the very birth.
— Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
God has made the provision for every man on earth to be equally endowed with the currency time
— Sunday Adelaja
Loves JudgeA man once hunted; saved by a woman; summoned for past judgment, could only say,“For love, it was all worth it.
— Delano Johnson, Rare Images of Love
God is not coming to fix any nation. The most he could do is to raise up a man or a woman who would take responsibility to fix the nation.
— Sunday Adelaja
How needy man is.
— Larry Kramer, The Normal Heart & The Destiny of Me
The mandate of God to man, believers and unbelievers alike is that they should manage the earth for God.
— Sunday Adelaja
I'm a man. Why would you expect anything else? We're meant to be easy and predictable. You are woman. You possess what we seek. We cannot afford to confuse your minds if we are to attain what we seek. Therefore, we elect to be easy and predictable.
— Jack Dancer, Detour Amour
Here is the day for the man, where is the man for the day?
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Barbed Arrows From the Quiver of C.H. Spurgeon
One should be able to have the man one loves.
— Larry Kramer, The Normal Heart & The Destiny of Me
Tragically though, it is that same life that is often least treasured or valued by men who possess it.
— Sunday Adelaja
Man therefore is responsible for what transpires here.
— Sunday Adelaja
The USA states that it can put a man on the moon. I have a hard time believing this, as it is quite clear that they cannot build a simple electrical system that does not make people sick in large numbers!
— Steven Magee
Through their teachings they dignify even the most mundane professions. According to them any profession or work that adds to the common good of man must be respected and it is dignified
— Sunday Adelaja
Man must conquer some more territories and to expand the influence of the kingdom to a higher horizon
— Sunday Adelaja
It is only the man that has done his best that qualifies to ask for God’s protection and blessings. This message must return to our pulpit.
— Sunday Adelaja
The image of a cleanly, self-possessed man exploiting his solitude was not easy to come by, but then he had not expected that it would be.
— John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever
The scripture talks about man managing, ruling the earth, as the sole duty of man.
— Sunday Adelaja
Man has been bestowed with all the senses, Alas! What a drama, we are yet to know the art of using it!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
God is not supposed to fix the earth, he created man for that.
— Sunday Adelaja
the best band for a women's hair is her man's hand
— Waasay Uddin
We have mainly been taught to just stay in the church, be faithful, serve the church, and serve the man of God.
— Sunday Adelaja
Every man produces only to the capacity of their philosophies of life or doctrines as we Christians call it.
— Sunday Adelaja
To be happy with your woman, make her emotional, but never becomes emotional!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Some men can be good ' horse whisperers ' and many dogs can be wonderful ' man whisperers '.
— Erik Pevernagie
The earth therefore is not Gods jurisdiction. It is man’ jurisdiction.
— Sunday Adelaja
There comes a time when a man must stand up and do what he knows is Wrong.
— Tom Holt, The Good, the Bad and the Smug
After spending all of his resources to create all of us, not just one or two people, but in millions and billions and yet, God cannot find a man who will stand for him
— Sunday Adelaja
If you should see/a man/walking down a crowded street/ talking aloud/ to himself don't run/in the opposite direction but run toward him/for he is a poet! You have nothing to fear/from a poet but the truth
— Ted Joans
God indeed has given the earth under to the control of man.
— Sunday Adelaja
A good man can become a nightmare if he continues to pay attention to wrong counsel.
— Paul Bamikole
The earth is man’s domain.
— Sunday Adelaja
Every man at some point in his life needs to be tested so he can find out if he’s a righteous man or an indifferent one.
— Dannika Dark, Two Minutes
A man's attraction towards a woman is propelled by his innate feelings, while a woman is more sort of involved in a mental game, an impossible preposition of sorts, its like playing soccer in a cricket ground!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Yes, this is an age of moral crisis. Yes, you are bearing punishment for your evil. But it is not man who is now on trial and it is not human nature that will take the blame. It is your moral code that’s through, this time. Your moral code has reached its climax, the blind alley at the end of its course. And if you wish to go on living, what you now need is not to return to morality—you who have never known any—but to discover it.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
God became man; and the love, woman. (Dieu s'est fait homme; - Et l'amour, femme.)
— Charles de Leusse
She was only really a female to him.But perhaps that was better. And after all, he was kind to the female in her, which no man had ever been. Men were very kind to the person she was, but rather cruel to the female, despising her or ignoring her altogether. Men were awfully kind to Constance Reid or to Lady Chatterley; but not to her womb they weren’t kind. And he took no notice of Constance or of Lady Chatterley; he just softly stroked her loins or her breasts.
— D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover:
As long as man is alive, he will always deem himself to be the light of the world, and consider his enemies as the darkness. And they will be thinking like that on both sides of the front.
— Dmitry Glukhovsky
He was, after all, just a man. And not merely a narrative.
— Hanif Kureishi, The Last Word
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
— Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu
Any man's measure is determined by what he will do when he is faced with his own deep need. Not how high he may reach but how low he may kneel.
— Dr. J. Otis Yoder, When You Pray
If not for him, I would never have become the man I am today. I ask that you not hold it against him. He meant well
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
The Fukushima nuclear complex went on to become the worst man-made engineering disaster in all of human history, outside of war.
— Steven Magee, Health Forensics
Man who is at the edge of a precipice has always a better chance to understand the universe than a man who is far away from that precipice!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Trying to understand man without recognizing him as imago Dei is like trying to understand a bas-relief without recognizing it as a carving.
— J. Budziszewski, What We Can't Not Know: A Guide
I am not Iron-Man, I am Forest-Man!
— Steven Magee
If you meet a man who deeply believes he knows it all, then you have succeeded in finding a man who's unwise.
There is a reason for every blessing that God gives a man.
— Sunday Adelaja
God saves a man that he may accomplish his purpose.
— Sunday Adelaja
Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need us. We do not consider need a claim. Do not cry that you own us. You don’t.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
When a man takes good care of the woman, she takes care of his competitors.
— Aleksandra Ninkovic, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
... which would enable him to prolong for the time being, and to renew for one day more the disappointment, the torturing deception that must always come to him with the vain presence of this woman, whom he might approach, yet never dared embrace.
— Marcel Proust
Girls did that then – knocked themselves out to support some man’s notion of his own genius. What was Gavin doing to help pay the rent? Not much, though she suspected him of dealing pot on the side. Once in a while they even smoked some of that, though not often, because it made Constance cough. It was all very romantic.
— Margaret Atwood, Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
Innovation is a man made change that we see with a sense of wonder.
— Debasish Mridha
Alex Barrow’s broad face, with the roughened skin that gave him an air of experience. His powerful, packed, wrestler’s body. The thick black fur at the base of his throat. It was wrong to call him handsome, although all the women did. Really he was almost ugly, but in a stirring, thrilling way that made her shift in her seat as she thought about him.
— Anne Tyler
... he was like a man into whose life a woman, whom he has seen for a moment passing by, has brought a new form of beauty, which strengthens and enlarges his own power of perception, without his knowing even whether he is ever to see her again whom he loves already, although he knows nothing of her, not even her name.
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
So, O king, does the present life of man on earth seem to me, in comparison with the time which is unknown to us, as though a sparrow flew swiftly through the hall, coming in by one door and going out by the other, and you, the while, sat at meat with your captains and liegemen, in wintry weather, with a fire burning in your midst and heating the room, the storm raging out of doors and driving snow and rain before it. For the time for which he is within, the bird is sheltered from the storm, but after this short while of calm he flies out again into the cold and is seen no more. Thus the life of man is visible for a moment, but we know not what comes before it or follows after it.
— Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Intimate relationships only have God's blessing if the man and woman are married.
— Sunday Adelaja
The woman, who is not the wife, has no right to receive the seed of the man, because it is the man and not the woman, who has to bear the responsibility for his seed
— Sunday Adelaja
Imagine God and Man set down together to play that game of chess that we call life. The one player is a master, the other a bungling amateur, so the outcome of the game cannot be in question. The amateur has free will, he does what he pleases, for it was he who chose to set up his will against that of the master in the first place; he throws the whole board into confusion time and again and by his foolishness delays the orderly ending of it all for countless generations, but every stupid move of his is dealt with by a masterly counterstroke, and slowly but inexorably the game sweeps on to the master's victory. But, mind you, the game could not move on at all without the full complement of pieces; Kings, Queens, Bishops, Knights, Pawns; the master does not lose sight of a single one of them.
— Elizabeth Goudge
I could settle for being a man, or I could struggle to become a human being.
— Robert Jensen
I thought of what my mom had said. "You talk like a man." It was easier to talk like a man than to be one.
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
A man generally lives up to what is expected of him.
— Henrietta C. Mears
Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like manner, nature is already, in its forms and tendencies, describing its own design. Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us. Let us inquire, to what end is nature?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
A man who walks with God always gets to his destination.
— Henrietta C. Mears
A man can not return anything except what is full.
— Davi Oliveira
A man works for his own dreams but a great man works for their dreams.
— Deshwal Sachin
I felt that he was a captive of financial and sentimental commitments, like every other man I know, and that he was no more free to fall in love with a strange woman he saw on a street corner than he was to take a walking trip through French Guiana or to recommence his life in Chicago under an assumed name.
— John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever
There was something about the man that was throwing her right off, and it had everything to do with the boner in his pants.
— Rosanna Leo, Up In Flames
Positively Inspired Man of Purpose
—  my style is P.I.M.P.'ish.
I spoke of my desire of finding a friend, of my thirst for a more intimate sympathy with a fellow mind than had ever fallen to my lot, and expressed my conviction that a man could boast of little happiness who did not enjoy this blessing.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
Sometimes a man must throw caution to the wind.
— Nnedi Okorafor, Lagoon
A woman, who considers herself to be mature, has every right to insist certain respectful expectations be met by a man, but not if her behavior is consistently childish, selfish, foolish or disrespectful. Man and woman should strive to bring values to the table that are worthy of mutual honor. Mature men won't tolerate nonsense, but baby-boys will.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Nature and man are opposed in Spain.
— Gertrude Stein, Picasso
He is but as the stubble of the field, and yet he has no beard.
— Marguerite Young
If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.
— Larry McMurtry
We must remember that God is not occupied with a grand toy of worlds and suns and planets, of attractions and repulsions, of agglomerations and crystallizations, of forces and waves; that these but constitute a portion of his workshops and tools for the bringing out of righteous men and women to fill his house of love withal.
— George MacDonald
As a man I’d been a cool customer. As a woman I was a hot tamale.
— Barry  Webster, The Lava in My Bones
As a child i was nothing short of a genius, as a man i got used to stupidity.
— Paul Bamikole
Modern civilisation has based its specific foundation on the principle of liberty which states that man is not a mere instrument to be used by others but rather a main autonomous living being.
— Altiero Spinelli, Il manifesto di Ventotene
Nature is not mute
—  it is man who is deaf.
Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art.
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
We always fall in love with a story, not a name or a body but what is inscribed in the man.
— Susana Fortes
Too many riddles weigh men down on earth. We must solve as we can, and try to keep a dry skin in the water.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
​"But you can thank God the Lord for His inconceivable goodness, which can be recognized daily and hourly throughout your entire existence, if only you honestly try! Your whole life shall therefore become a thanksgiving!
— Abd-Ru-Shin
It's easy to teach, give lesson to other, passing comments, but hard to learn when it comes to yourself.
— Nutan Bajracharya
Son, my dad said, every man needs a bitter, resentful woman in his life. Because there's nothing more touching to a mother's heart than to know that her son thinks of her constantly.
— David C. Holley, Write like no one is reading
God presents His works embellished with color, meaning, and content in order to make Himself known and loved to those seeking Him. We are sent to this world with the responsibility, then, to affect and reshape things with His permission, to reflect our understanding, but also to be attentive to the true purpose and meaning of the creation of things.
— M. Fethullah Gülen, Speech and Power of Expression: On Language, Esthetics, and Belief
Truth exists: whatever a man not able to tell is actually a truth!
— Thiruman Archunan
Man is not the owner of mind but only a user. The nature owns mind, man hires only a small portion of it that too for a brief period.
— Thiruman Archunan
Humans hunt and kill maneaters.What if animals hunted animal eaters?!
— Manoj Vaz
what makes me human; is my mistakes and that i resemble humanbeings...,What makes me a Man is that i am selfish,powerful,minded and stubborn
— Sephiwe Mduduzi Msiza
One man’s weakness is another man’s mercy.
— Lydia Millet, Mermaids in Paradise
He leaned into Le Voir’s face with the calliper and breathed on him, holding forth on this new science of which calibration was the test; these measurements would describe classes of being and we who had provided the parameters would be fit within them. To hear him tell it, this classification of species was the hope of Man.
— Claire Robertson, The Spiral House
Crossing the meadow, he came again to the mouth of the cave where he had stood so undecided only the twilight before. Knowing what he would find, he yet wanted the final confirmation. Pushing the evergreen branches aside from the smooth rock on the right side of the opening he found, deeply carved in the rock, an Ankh, Egyptian symbol of ever-lasting life, made possible only by the union of male and female. Partly covered by lichens, weather-worn by centuries of storm, it remained as he had seen it in his first dream. It was the first cross, and on it, generation by generation, humanity had crucified itself in order that future generations might live.("The God Wheel")
— David H. Keller
I don't care if your the President of the United States, the Queen of England, the inventor of the microchip, a bankable movie star, or an ordinary Joe or Jill, you're no paragon in my book, but the same as a zebra or gazelle - a source of protein. In fact, I'd rather hunt you, because you're slow and feeble.
— Philip Caputo, Ghosts of Tsavo: Stalking the Mystery Lions of East Africa
The truly unsettling thing about being a woman was needing a man to realise one's full potential
— Margaret Way, Master of Maramba
A woman accepted anything from life and made it the best
—  a man bargained for the better but also the less perfect.
If all was told, supposing there lived a person who could tell all, there would be no mysteries left, and the would be very bad. Man cannot live without mystery. He had a great need of it.
— Lame Deer Seeker of Visions
Nature takes the decision first, man agrees, reconciles, modifies, refutes, contradicts etc., subsequently. It means the application of reason, the discretionary power of a man, only happens afterwards!
— Thiruman Archunan
It was not about keeping a man
—  it was a lesson on how not to become an ugly woman.
By God a man is afraid more of himself than anything else; every day he is struggling to construct a God first to suit him, only then to others.
— Thiruman Archunan
We spend so long trying to be what other people want,that when we look in the mirror,we see a stranger.
— Anthony T. Hincks
The Warrior knows that no man is an island.He cannot fight alone; whatever his plan, he depends on other people. He needs to discuss his strategy, to ask for help, and, in moments of relaxation, to have someone with whom he can sit by the fire, someone he can regale with tales of battle.
— Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light
Lust may turn a man into a rapist, but religion pushes him into a murder.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Universe doesn't even know that you exist, so relax!
— Carl William Brown, Aforismi. Volume primo.
I do know this much though: If a man resorts to wiles, guile and petty deceptions, it means he's nowhere near being in love.
— Orhan Pamuk
Man is willing to accept woman as an equal, as a man in skirts, as an angel, a devil, a baby-face, a machine, an instrument, a bosom, a womb, a pair of legs, a servant, an encyclopaedia, an ideal or an obscenity; the one thing he won't accept her as is a human being, a real human being of the feminine sex.
— D.H. Lawrence
It takes patience to make a man - the patience to listen, watch and wait.
— Ogwo David Emenike
...and without love, one is a dead man on furlough, nothing but a scrap of paper with a few dates and a chance name on it, and we as well die.
— Erich Maria Remarque
A man who makes a mistake, can learn from it.A man that makes the same mistake again, has never made a mistake in the first place.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Every man is the conscious or unconscious author of his state.
— Ogwo David Emenike
Man is not better treated by nature in his first start than her other works are; so long as he is unable to act for himself as an independent intelligence she acts for him. But the very fact that constitutes him a man is that he does not remain stationary, where nature has placed him, that he can pass with his reason, retracing the steps nature had made him anticipate, that he can convert the work of necessity into one of free solution, and elevate physical necessity into a moral law.
— Friedrich Schiller
The cat that laughs is crazy. Man who does not laugh is below... (Le chat qui rit est un fou. - Homme qui ne rit est dessous...)
— Charles de Leusse
It is curious why anybody should pooh-pooh a study of fossils or various forms of rocks or lava. Such things grant us our only vision into Natural History’s big book; and it isn't a book in first-class condition. Far from it! Just a tiny scrap; a slip; or, possibly a big chunk is found, with nothing notifying us as to how it got to that particular point, nor how long ago. Man can only look at it, lift it, rap it, cut into it, and squint at it through a magnifying glass. And,— think about it. That’s all; until a formal study brings accompanying thoughts from many minds; and, by such tactics, judging that in all probability such and such a rock or fossil footprint is about so old. Natural History holds you in its grasp through just this impossibility of finding actual facts; for it is thus causing you to think. Now, thinking is not only a voluntary function; it is an acquisition; an art. Plants do not think. Animals probably do, but in a primary way, such as an aid in knowing poisonous foods, and how to bring up an offspring with similar ability. But Man can, and should think, and think hard and constantly. It is ridiculous to rush blindly into an action without looking forward to lay out a plan. Such an unthinking custom is almost a panic, and panic is but a mild form of insanity
— Ernest Vincent Wright, Gadsby
Every man is an author - an author of his state.
— Ogwo David Emenike
A woman is not only a man.
— June Seong
A man thinks all dust stays outdoors.
— Ernest Vincent Wright, Gadsby
Oh, how an animal that is hurt looks up at you, John! An animal’s actions can inform you if it is in pain. It don’t hop and jump around as usual. No. You find a sad, crouching, cringing, small bunch of fur or hair, whining, and plainly asking you to aid it. It isn't hard to find out what is wrong, John; any man or woman who would pass by such a sight, just isn't worth knowing. I just can’t withstand it! Why, I think that not only animals, but plants can know pain. I carry a drink to many a poor, thirsty growing thing; or, if it is torn up I put it kindly back, and fix its soil up as comfortably as I can. Anything that is living, John, is worthy of Man’s aid.
— Ernest Vincent Wright, Gadsby
Just stop and think a bit. All such things as bulk, or width, you know by comparison only; comparison with familiar things. So, just for fun, go up in an imaginary balloon, about half way to that old Moon, which has hung aloft from your birth—(and possibly a day or two in addition)— and look down upon your “gigantic” city. How will it look? It is a small patch of various colors; but you know that, within that tiny patch, many thousands of your kind hurry back and forth; railway trains crawl out to far-away districts; and, if you can pick out a grain of dust that stands out dimly in a glow of sunlight, you may know that it is your mansion, your cabin or your hut, according to your financial status. Now, if that hardly shows up, how about you? What kind of a dot would you form in comparison? You must admit that your past thoughts as to your own pomposity will shrink just a bit! All this shows us that could this big World think, it wouldn't know that such a thing as Man was on it. And Man thinks that his part in all this unthinkably vast Cosmos is important! Why, you poor shrimp! if this old World wants to twitch just a bit and knock down a city or two, or split up a group of mountains, Man, with all his brain capacity, can only clash wildly about, dodging falling bricks.
— Ernest Vincent Wright, Gadsby
That was just grand, John, but I was thinking along a path varying a bit from that. You know that Man’s brain is actually all of him. All parts of his body, as you follow down from his brain, act simply as aids to it. His nostrils bring him air; his mouth is for masticating his food; his hands and limbs furnish ability for manipulation and locomotion; and his lungs, stomach and all inward organs function only for that brain. If you look at a crowd you say that you saw lots of folks: but if you look at a man bathing in a pond; and if that man sank until only that part from his brow upward was in sight, you might say that you saw nobody; only a man’s scalp. But you actually saw a man, for a man is only as big as that part still in sight. Now a child’s skull, naturally, is not so big as a man’s; so its brain has no room for all that vast mass of thoughts which adult brains contain. It is, so to say, in a small room. But, as days and months go by, that room will push its walls outward, and that young brain gradually fill up all that additional room. So, looking for calm, cool thinking in a child is as silly as looking for big, juicy plums amongst frail spring blossoms. Why, oh, why don’t folks think of that? ... But God don’t do so; for God knows that, without a tiny hand to hold, a tiny foot to pat, tiny lips to kiss, and a tiny, warm, wriggling body to hug, Man would know nothing but work.
— Ernest Vincent Wright, Gadsby
But you know that any showing of such an innovation is apt to start gossip. Just why, I don’t know. It, though, is a trait of Mankind only. Animals don’t ‘bloom’ out so abruptly. You can hunt through Biology, Zoology or any similar study, and find but slow, -awfully slow,— adaptations toward any form of variation. Hurrying was not known until Man got around.
— Ernest Vincent Wright, Gadsby
It is a wonderful gift for the man to be welcomed by the woman.
— Sameh Elsayed
The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think the reason he buys everything he can buy is that in the back of his mind he has the crazy hope that one of his purchases will be life everlasting!--Which it never can be....
— Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Do have a mind of your own. This is not just a spiritual matter only, but one which concerns ordinary manliness. I would do many things to please my friends, but to go to hell to please them is more than I would venture.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon