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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
— Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless manthe most guilty.
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
You're the kind of man my mother warned me about.
— Christine Feehan, Dark Prince
Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.
— Stephen King, The Gunslinger
I’d never seen a man cry before, only on TV. I’d never even seen Dad close to crying. Those tears looked so odd on you. It was like the strength of you just seemed to sap away. The surprise of it stopped me from being so scared.
— Lucy Christopher, Stolen: A Letter to My Captor
Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Get to know the right, then you would know the people of right. Right Is not measured by its men, but men are measured by their right.
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.
— Stephen King, The Gunslinger
Are you a devil?""I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart.
— G.K. Chesterton
Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
They were close to the end of the beginning . . .
— Stephen King, The Gunslinger
Monsters are easy, Miss Rook. They're monsters. But a monster in a suit? That's basically just a wicked man, and a wicked man is a more dangerous thing by far.
— William Ritter, Jackaby
A man learns with age, if he is lucky.
— Patricia Briggs, When Demons Walk
Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Men argue. Nature acts.
— Voltaire
Hair on a man's chest is thought to denote strength. The gorilla is the most powerful of bipeds and has hair on every place on his body except for his chest.
— Anton Szandor LaVey
Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice. He has no automatic knowledge of what is good for him or evil, what values his life depends on, what course of action it requires. Are you prattling about an instinct of self-preservation? An instinct of self-preservation is precisely what man does not possess. An 'instinct' in as unerring and automatic form of knowledge. A desire is not an instinct. A desire to live does not give you the knowledge required for living. And even man's desire to live is not automatic: your secret evil today is that that is the desire you do not hold. Your fear of death is not a love of life and will not give you the knowledge needed to keep it. Man must obtain his knowledge and choose his actions by a process of thinking, which nature will not force him to perform. Man has the power to act as his own destroyer--and that is the way he has acted through most of history.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Once again there was the desert, and that only.
— Stephen King, The Gunslinger
so, what are you in for? MANSLAUGHTER!!! I SLAUGHTERED A MAN!! JUST LIKE A PIG!!! PUT HIM ON A SPIT AND PUT AN APPLE IN HIS MOUTH!!!!
— Brian Regan, Funny Business: The Best of Uproar Comedy Vol. II
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
— Bruce Lee
Women are more evolved biologically and emotionally, that’s well knownand it’s obvious. But they confuse sex and the spirit; they don’tseparate. Men, as you know, always separate: they separatetheir human and dog natures.
— Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis
For this reason the gentleman will employ a man on a distant mission and observe his degree of loyalty, will employ him close at hand and observe his degree of respect. He will hand him troublesome affairs and observe how well he manages them, will suddenly ask his advice and observe how wisely he answers. He will exact some difficult promise from him and see how well he keeps it, turn over funds to him and see with what benevolence he dispenses them, inform him of the danger he is in and note how faithful he is to his duties. He will get him drunk with wine and observe how well he handles himself, place him in mixed company and see what effect beauty has upon him. By applying these nine tests, you may determine who is the unworthy man.
— Confucius
Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Man who hates cats is insecure, but a man who likes them is one worth keeping. If he can appreciate a cat, he can appreciate a strong, independent woman.
— Larissa Ione, Passion Unleashed
Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.
— John Calvin
An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.
— Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men."--Charlie Gordan
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
You can always tell how a man will treat his wife by the way he treats his mother.
— Janette Rallison, How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-Boyfriend
They're butterflies because...well, he thought it was cool. They eat humans.
— Katsura Hoshino, D.Gray-man, Volume 11
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
— Stephen King, The Gunslinger
We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.
— Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
The best smell in the world is that man that you love.
— Jennifer Aniston
There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower.
— Stephen King, The Gunslinger
The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
— William Blake
Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.
— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.
— Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain
For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man."To be killed by you is to be desired more than a life excluded from your service."Bravo." Her Imperial Viciousness laughed with genuine feeling. "Bra-vo!
— Frank Beddor, Seeing Redd
Sometimes the man who looks happiest in town, with the biggest smile, is the one carrying the biggest load of sin. There are smiles & smiles; learn to tell the dark variety from the light. The seal-barker, the laugh-shouter, half the time he's covering up. He's had his fun & he's guilty. And all men do love sin, Will, oh how they love it, never doubt, in all shapes, sizes, colors & smells. Times come when troughs, not tables, suit appetites. Hear a man too loudly praising others & look to wonder if he didn't just get up from the sty. On the other hand, that unhappy, pale, put-upon man walking by, who looks all guilt & sin, why, often that's your good man with a capital G, Will. For being good is a fearful occupation; men strain at it & sometimes break in two. I've known a few. You work twice as hard to be a farmer as to be his hog. I suppose it's thinking about trying to be good makes the crack run up the wall one night. A man with high standards, too, the least hair falls on him sometimes wilts his spine. He can't let himself alone, won't let himself off the hook if he falls just a breath from grace.
— Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
The less worth of a man,the greater his pride.
— Yukito Kishiro
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. 
— Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house.
— Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories
He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.
— Stephen King, The Running Man
If daughters couldn't soften a man, then nothing would.
— Linda Weaver Clarke, Anasazi Intrigue
Truth recognizes truth, just as a man with real talent is the first to recognize another with real talent. Likewise, superficiality attracts others with an artificial surface. Only the superficial applaud the superficial. A man of true substance rejects the superficial because he seeks only truth and depth. Based on this reasoning, you can easily measure the weight of any man's character just by observing who he admires.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
You think it’s because they’re lying? Nonsense! I like it when people lie! Lying is man’s only privilege over all other organisms. If you lie--you get to the truth! Lying is what makes me a man. Not one truth has ever been reached without first lying fourteen times or so, maybe a hundred and fourteen, and that’s honorable in its way; well, but we can’t even lie with our own minds! Lie to me, but in your own way, and I’ll kiss you for it. Lying in one’s own way is almost better than telling the truth in someone else’s way; in the first case you’re a man, and in the second—no better than a bird! The truth won’t go away, but life can be nailed shut; there are examples. Well, so where are we all now? With regard to science, development, thought, invention, ideals, aspirations, liberalism, reason, experience, and everything, everything, everything, we’re all, without exception, still sitting in the first grade! We like getting by on other people’s reason--we’ve acquired a taste for it! Right? Am I right?
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
What is a man?What is a woman?Why are men and women attracted to each other?Why do they desire each other?Love...what is it?
— Yuu Watase
The last clear definite function of man—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man....For man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. This you may say of man—when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate, man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back. This you may say and know it and know it. This you may know when the bombs plummet out of the black planes on the market place, when prisoners are stuck like pigs, when the crushed bodies drain filthily in the dust. You may know it in this way. If the step were not being taken, if the stumbling-forward ache were not alive, the bombs would not fall, the throats would not be cut. Fear the time when the bombs stop falling while the bombers live—for every bomb is proof that the spirit has not died. And fear the time when the strikes stop while the great owners live—for every little beaten strike is proof that the step is being taken. And this you can know—fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is the foundation of Manself, and this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.
— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.
— Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter
One cannot have any respect or regard for men who take the position of the reformer and then refuse to see the logical consequences of that position, let alone following them out in action.
— B.R. Ambedkar, Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual
Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixations he hath hitherto felt happier than at any other time on Earth. And when he invented Hell...lo, Hell was his Heaven on Earth"; he could put up with suffering now, by contemplating the eternal punishment of his oppressors in the other world.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds /Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
— Wallace Stevens
To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse. He believes, with an innocence peculiar to himself, that they are equally proud of this alleged confraternity. He says, 'Look at my two noble friends -- they are dumb, but they are loyal.' I have for years suspected that they are only tolerant.
— Beryl Markham, West with the Night
I should be contentto look at a mountainfor what it isand not as a comment on my life.
— David Ignatow
The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man.
— Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool?Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.
— William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
On revient toujours a son premier amour." It sounds like a cynicism to-day. As if we really meant: "On ne revient jamais a son premier amour." But as a matter of fact, a man never leaves his first love, once the love is established. He may leave his first attempt at love. Once a man establishes a full dynamic communication at the deeper and higher centers, with a woman, this can never be broken. But sex in the head breaks down, and half circuits break down. Once the full circuit is established, however, this can never break.
— D.H. Lawrence, Fantasia of the Unconscious
The sexiest thing about men is how they are with kids... If they are great with kids they are real men ... selfless, powerful, comforting ... Too bad so many men suck!
— Pamela Anderson, Kant and Theology
Diesel better have a big dick, that's all she was saying.
— Erin McCarthy, Slow Ride
Man is the vainest of allcreatures that have their being upon earth. As long as heavenvouchsafes him health and strength, he thinks that he shall come tono harm hereafter, and even when the blessed gods bring sorrow uponhim, he bears it as he needs must, and makes the best of it; forGod Almighty gives men their daily minds day by day. I know allabout it, for I was a rich man once, and did much wrong in thestubbornness of my pride, and in the confidence that my father andmy brothers would support me; therefore let a man fear God in allthings always, and take the good that heaven may see fit to sendhim without vainglory.
— Homer
I felt a hole boring through my heart. It was carving a scar that would never heal. I was a man. A man doesn't cry at lost love. Never. Instead, he turns hard. From now on, I would live up to my name"...Rattler.
— Barry Andrew Chambers
Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can;But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!
— Rudyard Kipling
Never test another man by your own weakness.
— Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.
— Marquis de Sade
Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
This may be impossible for you to believe," Colt said in a hushed voice, "but as recently as last year, I was a hyper, naive-albeit extremely good-looking-minor myself.""And now you're a persistent, outdoorsy, unshaven man-boy who cavorts with clones of your former self?"Colt plucked a round stone out of the water. "I prefer boy-man, but the rest of the sentence sounded fairly accurate.
— Karsten Knight, Wildefire
Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less an individual (a subject) than an element in a mass.
— Milan Kundera, Encounter
Man takes root at his feet, and at best he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
— John Burroughs
They say my verse is sad: no wonder.Its narrow measure spansRue for eternity, and sorrowNot mine, but man'sThis is for all ill-treated fellowsUnborn and unbegot,For them to read when they're in troubleAnd I am not.
— A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad
I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I found out the truth early, boy.And what is the truth, Stark? It's all very simple. There's no such thing as the dignity of man. Man is a base, pathetic and vulgar animal.
— Charles G. Finney, The Circus of Dr. Lao
You're a good man," Fang said. "You're the last good man in this whole town. All the good that could be squeezed out of this forsaken place was used to make you. That's why you're so small, my friend: there just wasn't that much left." Fang laughed. "and that's why you can see us, you know, and nobody else can. You see everybody, even that lumberjack.
— Daniel Wallace, The Kings and Queens of Roam
If you are a woman, reading my tale, learn to fight for your rights and the respect you deserve as a human being. But, if you are a man, reading my tale, learn to respect women and, likewise, advocate for them.
— Yanan Melo, Aggressing the Predatory Lions
Well if manners maketh man make-up maketh woman.And we don't need a phalanx of behavioural scientists to explain why man judge women by their looks.Because the see bether than thay think.
— Kathy Lette, Nip 'N' Tuck
A man of calm is like a shady tree.People who need shelter come to it.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
She turned and bolted out the door. She had learnt an important lesson - "When a man paid 'for' you...you paid 'to' him." It was her first Valentine slaughter.
— Mallika Nawal, I'm a Woman & I'm on SALE
Try repeating “man is an animal" a few times, just to notice how unconvincing it sounds. There seems to be no way to get this idea into our heads, except by long rumination over the facts of evolution or perhaps by exposure to a primitive tribe or by being raised on a farm. Primitives sometimes see little difference between themselves and the animals around them. Karl von den Steinen was told by a Xingu that the only difference between them and the monkey was that they monkeys lacked the bow and arrow. And Jules Henry observed on the Kningang that dogs are not considered pets, like some of the other animals, but are on a level of emotional equality, like a relative. But in our own Western culture we have, for the most part, set a great distance between ourselves and the rest of nature, and language helps us to do this. Thus we say that a sheep “drops" its lamb, but a woman “gives birth"—it’s much more noble. Yet we have the right to make such distinctions because we assign the meaning to the world by naming names of things; we inhabit a different sphere and we capitalize naturally on the privilege.
— Ernest Becker, The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man
The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.
— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
The trap had a ghastly perfection
— Stephen King, The Gunslinger
Amy! Never underestimate the rare tears of man..because that's always a sign that he has lost hope,out of options and more dangerously has nothing to lose...
— Sherif A. El-Mawardy, The Truth Behind Truth: What Lies Beyond...
A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability. Not that I'm saying a woman can't provide stability, I'm not saying that...It does take a father though.
— Tom DeLay
He admired bears because everyone was afraid to disturb them while they slept and fish were so in love with bears that they jumper right into their mouths. He ate meat and never felt bad about it unless he saw how the animal was slaughtered or if the meat was not cooked properly but he thought thrice about killing bus.
— Robb Todd
Once a man began thinking with his body, intelligent decisions came few and far between.
— Tanya Huff, Nights of the Round Table and Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy
You gonna do somethin'? Or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?
— Kevin Jarre
Man has no individual i. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small "i"s, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming into contact, or, on the contrary, hostile to each other, mutually exclusive and incompatible. Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking, "i". And each time his i is different. just now it was a thought, now it is a desire, now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly. Man is a plurality. Man's name is legion.
— G.I. Gurdjieff
Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.
— Winston S. Churchill
I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I found out the truth early, boy. And what is the truth, Stark? It's all very simple. There's no such thing as the dignity of man. Man is a base, pathetic and vulgar animal.
— Charles Grandison Finney, The Circus of Dr. Lao
it wont be long now it wont be longman is making deserts of the earthit wont be long nowbefore man will have used it upso that nothing but antsand centipedes and scorpionscan find a living on it....what man calls civilizationalways results in deserts....men talk of money and industryof hard times and recoveriesof finance and economicsbut the ants wait and the scorpions waitfor while men talk they are making deserts all the timegetting the world ready for the conquering antdrought and erosion and desertbecause men cannot learn....it wont be long now it wont be longtill earth is barren as the moonand sapless as a mumbled bone
— Don Marquis, Archy Does His Part
A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to be charming because they are childlike, he is also a schemer, self-seeker, traitor, Judas, crook, and villain - in short, a man.
— Robertson Davies, The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business/The Manticore/World of Wonders
An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.
— Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.
— R. Scott Bakker, The White Luck Warrior
Man allowed by God to do good and evil.That's why some of angels feel so jealous.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.
— Stephen King, The Running Man
Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another.
— Voltaire, Candide
On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's history; and as there had been a beginning of life upon it, so, under the influence of other conditions, there would be an end: man, no more significant than other forms of life, had come not as the climax of creation but as a physical reaction to the environment.
— W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
One of the few times in a man's life when he is not full of shit!!The morning of a colonoscopy. Enough said!
— Jim Lawrence
The love of aman is like a drop of color into something clear.
— Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After
I believe that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of man's puny, inexhaustible, voice still talking! ...not simply because man alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because man has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion, sacrifice and endurance.
— William Faulkner
A man's eye serves as a photography to the invisible, as well as his ear serves as echo to the silence.
— Machado de Assis
Know a man by his metaphors.
— John Connolly, The Wolf in Winter
The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped primitive minds, bewildered, torturing one another in their stupidity, yet one and all in some unique manner, beautiful.
— Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
Sobs, heavy, hoarse and loud, shook the chairs, and great tears fell through his fingers on the floor - just such tears, sir, as you dropped into the coffin where lay your first-born son; such tears, woman, as you shed when you heard the cries of your dying babe; for, sir, he was a man, and you are but another man; and, woman, though dressed in silk and jewels, you are but a woman, and, in life's great straits and mighty griefs, ye feel but one sorrow!
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Bravery is the dead man’s virtue.
— Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold
A true Seeker of Love Should find a good Keeper'' The man Seeks and woman Keeps
— Bello Ahmd
It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Why is man obliged to learn ignorance?
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet could have guessed that this bland orb teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.
— Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker
The solar system is off center and consequently man is too ...
— Harlow Shapley, Through Rugged Ways to the Stars
Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.
— H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau
To him, man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.
— Stephen King, The Running Man
And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed.
— John Steinbeck
Shouldn't we rather recognize that each person is a sort of unconscious anthology of all epochs of man
—  and that he may at times be moving simultaneously among different epochs?
You don't mean to say that Hogan has turned into a woman? Why, yes, that's him all right, you can recognize him by the fact that he has two legs, two arms, and an indecipherable face. Man, woman, what difference does it make? Are they not all exactly the same, these little black insects with their rhythmic movements, the same eyes, the same thoughts?
— Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio, The Book of Flights
Unlike fine furniture, a man is better unfinished.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
The Doktor was an old man. When he was a kid, his Dad bought him a chemistry set. He never played with silly putty like the other kids. The first time he lost his eyebrows he was only five.
— Christina Engela, Innocent Minds
THE DEVIL. As far as I went, yes. But I will now go further, and confess to you that men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving. But when you are as old as I am; when you have a thousand times wearied of heaven, like myself and the Commander, and a thousand times wearied of hell, as you are wearied now, you will no longer imagine that every swing from heaven to hell is an emancipation, every swing from hell to heaven an evolution. Where you now see reform, progress, fulfilment of upward tendency, continual ascent by Man on the stepping stones of his dead selves to higher things, you will see nothing but an infinite comedy of illusion....
— George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
An average woman is in this superior to an average man—that she never instigates, only responds.
— Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Someone can accept an impossible challenge because deep within they believe it possible. Possible and impossible can be assessed differently by a woman and a man.My possible may seem impossible to you, my limit may be your challenge. And vice-versa.
— Luigina Sgarro
Only a real man has the right to stand at the pinnacle.
— James Clavell, Tai-Pan
The intensity of Intellectual suffering in Man is same as Emotional suffering in a Woman.
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Nothing represents a man better than his ideas.
— Eraldo Banovac
You can get the man out of stone-age, but not stone-age out of man.
— Abhijit Naskar, 7 Billion Gods: Humans Above All
In the busyness of living, he is the kind of man that makes a woman pause and write romantic poetry.
— Terry a O'Neal
If we analyse the classes of life, we readily find that there are three cardinal classes which are radically distinct in function. A short analysis will disclose to us that, though minerals have various activities, they are not "living." The plants have a very definite and well known function-the transformation of solar energy into organic chemical energy. They are a class of life which appropriates one kind of energy, converts it into another kind and stores it up; in that sense they are a kind of storage battery for the solar energy; and so I define THE PLANTS AS THE CHEMISTRY-BINDING class of life.The animals use the highly dynamic products of the chemistry-binding class-the plants-as food, and those products-the results of plant-transformation-undergo in animals a further transformation into yet higher forms; and the animals are correspondingly a more dynamic class of life; their energy is kinetic; they have a remarkable freedom and power which the plants do not possess-I mean the freedom and faculty to move about in space; and so I define ANIMALS AS THE SPACE-BINDING CLASS OF LIFE.And now what shall we say of human beings? What is to be our definition of Man? Like the animals, human beings do indeed possess the space-binding capacity but, over and above that, human beings possess a most remarkable capacity which is entirely peculiar to them-I mean the capacity to summarise, digest and appropriate the labors and experiences of the past; I mean the capacity to use the fruits of past labors and experiences as intellectual or spiritual capital for developments in the present; I mean the capacity to employ as instruments of increasing power the accumulated achievements of the all-precious lives of the past generations spent in trial and error, trial and success; I mean the capacity of human beings to conduct their lives in the ever increasing light of inherited wisdom; I mean the capacity in virtue of which man is at once the heritor of the by-gone ages and the trustee of posterity. And because humanity is just this magnificent natural agency by which the past lives in the present and the present for the future, I define HUMANITY, in the universal tongue of mathematics and mechanics, to be the TIME-BINDING CLASS OF LIFE.
— Alfred Korzybski, Manhood of Humanity
I've done some stupid things I regret, but I've managed to keep my integrity. Which is important because integrity is fragile. Break it once and it's gone forever.
— Jonathan Heatt
Man wants to belong.He just doesn't know how.
— Anthony T. Hincks
When he admires the man he calls his father--a man who is slightly above 'the scum of the earth', what does that say about the man who admire him?
— Terry a O'Neal
One man's fool is just another man's savior.
— Anthony T. Hincks
But if they are shown to be, and are the works not of men but of God, why are the unbelievers so irreligious as not to recognize the Master Who did them?
— Athanasius of Alexandria, On the Incarnation
man's sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both of the senses and the mind bear reference to man and not to the Universe, and the human mind resembles these uneven mirrors which impart their own properties to different objects, from which rays are emitted and distort and disfigure them.
— Francis Bacon, The New Organon
When a man truly loves a woman he will always try to make her life easier.
— Ron Baratono
Penises... if used incorrectly it becomes man's worst enemy, his worst nightmare.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
You cannot heal what you will not unveil.
— Sanjo Jendayi
You know,” he said. “I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It’s what we do.” There was silence, in the high place.
— Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Max always mumbles; not in a shy way, but rather as if he's telling you what it will cost to take out your worst enemy, or how much you'd have to pay to rig a horse race.
— Scarlett Thomas, The End of Mr. Y
We stood at the crossroads and we all knew that we should turn right to where the sign pointed, but in our stupidity we turned left and out over the precipice.I guess we had the same chance with pollution, but then again, we were at those damn crossroads.
— Anthony T. Hincks
God would never make man in his image,because that would then make him as vain as what man is.
— Anthony T. Hincks
The next man I was involved with lived in Boston. He taught me to cook mushrooms. He taught me that if you heat the butter very hot and put just a very few mushrooms into the frying pan, they come out nice and brown and crispy, whereas if the butter is only moderately hot and you crowd the mushrooms, they get all mushy and wet. Every time I make mushrooms I think of him. There was another man in my life when I was younger who taught me to put sour cream into scrambled eggs, and since I never ever put sour cream into scrambled eggs I never really think of him at all.
— Nora Ephron, Heartburn
Know then thyself; presume not God to scan,The proper study of mankind is Man.Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,A being darkly wise and rudely great:With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,And too much weakness for the Stoic's pride,He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest;In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast;In doubt his mind or body to prefer;Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err.Alike in ignorance, his reason such,Whether he thinks too little or too much.
— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man & Satires
Division isn't just a math's problem.It's also humanities!
— Anthony T. Hincks
Wo-man: A male mind driving a female body!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Ex ‘Fleet man?”“He was a full Commander, last I heard, sir.”“Interesting.” Falconer commented. “Get me his specs. If I have to take him aboard my ship, I want to know all about him.” She swallowed. “Yes sir.”Falconer returned his attention to Nordyke.“What’s their location?”“They’re about a week outside the Hermes system, Captain.”“Helm, set a course – best possible speed!”“Um – sir, we’re on conversion drive at the moment.” The helmsman reported.“I know, Linson – d’you think I’m senile?”“No, sir – I…” The young helmsman stammered.“I did say ‘best possible speed’, didn’t I?”“Yes, sir.
— Christina Engela, Blachart
We have given to thee, Adam, no fixed seat, no form of thy own, no gift peculiarly thine, that thou mayest feel as thine own, have as thine own, possess as thine own, the seat, the form, the gifts which thou thyself shalt desire. A limited nature in other creatures is confined within the laws written down by Us. In conformity with thy free judgment, in whose hands I have placed thee, thou art confined by no bounds; and thou will fix the limits of nature for thyself. I have placed thee at the centre of the world, that from there thou mayest more conveniently look around and see whatsoever is in the world. Neither heavenly nor earthly, neither mortal nor immortal have We made thee. Thou, like a judge appointed for being honourable, art the molder and maker of thyself.
— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man
Just as Adam produced Woman without a woman, the Virgin produced the Second Adam without a man.
— Atom Tate
Not everyone man is a lover, not every love is the love.
— J. Limbu
I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
— Deyth Banger, Notes Of A Dead Man Sequel
Man is always inferior to a woman, a fact he will never realize not confess in his lifetime!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Never blame a woman when you can't handle her!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
If God exists at all, it exists in the pants of a man and woman, not otherwise
— Neil Jain
Every woman deserves a Man who not only responds to her words, but to her silence as well!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Principles keeps a man focused and head straight to achieve a set goal
— Topsy Gift
A man is indeed a city, and for the poet there are no ideas but in things.
— William Carlos Williams, Paterson
You don't want to be here... neither and there... what you are going to see here is the truth after so much books, series, movies... the truth is going to have feet, legs... foot... and even a body and arms and head....
— Deyth Banger, Notes Of A Dead Man Sequel
He who is satisfied with what he has, is a rich man.
— Nabil N. Jamal
He who mocked and laughed at correction should blame nobody for his shame and doom.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
Okay... I get that... but why I!?
— Deyth Banger, Notes Of A Dead Man Sequel
Fuck you and them... I don't like this rules!
— Deyth Banger, Notes Of A Dead Man Sequel
Skills and proficiency is the greatest miracle that a man needs.
— Sunday Adelaja
Delayed gratification is what makes a man.
— Sunday Adelaja
The laws of heaven are imprinted in a man D.N.A
— Sunday Adelaja
A man who’s susceptible to panic attack is a man full of worry
— Sunday Adelaja
A man who is depleted by worry is he who natural immunity is reduced
— Sunday Adelaja
A principled man is he whose response to life is outstanding
— Sunday Adelaja
The Sin against God’s Law Resulted in the Fall of Man
— Sunday Adelaja
The Fall Of Man Did Not Wave God’s Intention To Reveal His Love To Mankind
— Sunday Adelaja
For every man there is a deep longing
— Sunday Adelaja
When God calls a man He entrust something to him
— Sunday Adelaja
God expects from man a responsible attitude towards his given task
— Sunday Adelaja
God uses the problem in the life of every man for his good
— Sunday Adelaja
God loves man and that’s why He is merciful and good to him
— Sunday Adelaja
God’s plan is to get back the earth that has been given over to Satan by man
— Sunday Adelaja
You do evil to the man and to God through your miracle prayers all the time.
— Sunday Adelaja
For a man to subdue a man is to defile God’s purpose
— Sunday Adelaja
A fallen man is he who has lost the glory of God
— Sunday Adelaja
It is virtues that make a man not prosperity.
— Sunday Adelaja
It is foolish to play with God, he is not a man, God’s laws do not change and His word is steadfast
— Sunday Adelaja
It is only the man that delays his gratification that is a man indeed.
— Sunday Adelaja
Although mankind is made from mere dust of the ground, we are made in the image of God. As we emulate His image, we have value and purpose.
— Todd Coburn, Reflection of the Son
…the greatest danger to man in space was man himself.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.
— Georges Bataille, The Bataille Reader
The eye of a man is never satisfied with what it sees.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Captain Harald Biscay rubbed his graying temples, staring deep in thought at the vast star field showing on the large navigation display on the bridge. It had been a pretty rough few days for him. Of all the things he’d seen in his travels through the universe, not many rated worthy of being remembered. Of the few examples of items Captain Biscay rated that highly, when he was a young man, his uncle would often play the bagpipes at strange hours of the night – shortly before being put in a ‘home’. That rated a mention.
— Christina Engela, Dead Man's Hammer
Some say we are not like humans but we are more like them than we are different. Man and animals are in the same species as mammals as they have mammary glands that produce the milk to nurse their young. Their lungs breathe air and their blood is warm. They are vertebrates in that their skeletal system and well-designed spines hold their bodies together. Each cell is made of molecules, each molecule is made of atoms, and each atom is made of protons, neutrons and mostly electrons, which are made of waves of fibered light.
— Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge
The low profile of a man does not mean he is nobody
— ETC Wanyanwu
Man was created by God to fulfill God’s will
— Sunday Adelaja
God can accomplish His plan, only if a man will be fully obedient to His will
— Sunday Adelaja
If a man will identify with God in everything, God will use a man like that as His representative
— Sunday Adelaja
A man convinced against his will, stands opposed ever still. A man convinced he is right, gives the effort twice the fight.
— Jeffrey Fry
If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?
— Blaise Pascal, Pensées
When a man cannot fight he would curse. The gods like to feel needed.
— Bernard Cornwell, The Flame Bearer
It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the moon as to put a bone in your nose.
— William Henry III
... responsibilities are the anvil on which a man is forged.
— Terry Pratchett, Dodger
But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do.
— Albert Camus, A Happy Death
If a man admires a woman he had something in his mind that he would like to carry further. If a woman admires a man, she had definitely made up her mind.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
A seed houses generation of seeds and can also feed generations of man.
— Oscar Bimpong
Making a woman fall for a man is a natural talent. You can practice it but you can’t master it. Practice does not make you expert, but dampens your spirits every time you fail.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
No Centaurs here, or Gorgons look to find,My subject is of man, and human kind.
— Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy: What It Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics, and Several Cures of It; In Three Partitions; With Their Several Sections, Members, and Subsections, Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically Opened and Cut Up, V
The man who pursues moral ends with unmoral means is involved in acontradiction of motives, and nullifies the object at which he aims,since he denies it by his actions.
— Fredrich Von Bernhardi
The Beaver is an amphibious creature: by day it lives hidden in rivers, but at night it roams the land, feeding itself with anything that it can find. Now it understands the reason why hunters come after it with such eagerness and impetuosity, and it puts down its head and with its teeth cuts off its testicles and throws them in their path, as a prudent man who, falling into the hands of robbers, sacrifices all that he is carrying, to save his life, and forfeits his possessions by way of ransom. If however it has already saved its life by self-castration and is again pursued, then it stands up and reveals that it offers no ground for their eager pursuit, and releases the hunters from all further exertions, for they esteem its flesh less. Often however Beavers with testicles intact, after escaping as far away as possible, have drawn in the coveted part, and with great skill and ingenuity tricked their pursuers, pretending that they no longer possessed what they were keeping in concealment.
— Aelian, Historical Miscellany
Until Einstein (roughly), THE universe of Newton was, for us, THE universe. With Einstein, it became A universe. Something similar happen to man. A new 'man' was produced, just as good, certainly contraditory to the old one. THE man became A man, otherwise a 'conceptual construction', one among the infinity of possible ones.
— Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
Man is only a forgetful mortal, but God — He sees, hears and remembers everything.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
A pretty face and a beautiful body blind a man more quickly than any poker through the eyes.
— Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind
When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.
— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
UFO.... MIB???UFO = MIB??!?What now... please keep the silence!
— Deyth Banger