In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That’s a good thing.

To be the man, you gotta beat the man!

Whenever a man takes upon him to make additions to the Scriptures, he is likely to end with valuing his own additions above Scripture itself.

A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone.

First things first. Any man here that wants to walk away can do so knowing they’re the best of us. But it’s gotta be now. There is no ground support.

I’m nice with damn kids, man. Kids love me. I can bounce back and forth. I can discipline kids and I can get into the mind of a kid.

Accidents, try to change them – it’s impossible. The accidental reveals man.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.

But what is this clock, marking only so many years, that such men seem to consult in the dark of their being? We do not know. All we do know for certain is that no such clock, no such warnings, can come out of the passing time that we are told is all we have. They belong to a larger idea of Time, like all these dreams that came true.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause; because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.

A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior

Man is his own most vexing problem.

Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.

Alec didn’t normally consider himself a violent man, but sometimes, arms simply needed to be removed.

I don’t think anyone can teach you how to be a man but a woman. You only learn by learning what they need.

A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree, and he turns away. Show him facts or figures, and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic, and he fails to see your point.

As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect.

There’s a lot of us out here that are birds, man. We all need to just fly.

I’m not a smart man, but I know what love is.

The worst affected from corruption is the common man.

My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.

In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains
On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows,
In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame,
The good deeds a man has done before defend him.

Man is a creature whose substance is faith. What his faith is, he is.

Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, ‘Le Voyage’ features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like a particularly runny Brie, grimacing in pain with a space capsule protruding from his right eye.

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace; and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

The protection of a man’s person is more sacred than the protection of his property.

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal.

We have so many people who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one

Even when candidates have degrees from Harvard and Yale, they try to run as the candidate of the common man.

He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.

What better way to enslave a man than give him the vote and call him free? What does it profit a man to be able to vote when he has to choose between a Democrat and a Republican— Tweedledee and Tweedledum?

I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world’s beauty, is everything!

Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.

A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it-this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

Every man is his own hell.

The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

If the average man is made in God’s image, then such a man as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God.

The average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable.

Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day; teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime, but he’ll probably come to really hate fishing, so just give him a fish and teach him to fish.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

Strychnine is a grand tonic, Kemp, to take the flabbiness out of a man.

The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

They haven’t any spirit in them – no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn’t one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.

By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth.

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man — the mystery, the power, the freedom.

And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers – shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle – to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?

When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

Man is an imperfect animal and never quite trustworthy in the dark.

The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short

Homo homini lupus

Captain Kirk is the man and I don’t want to hear another word about it.

Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry… no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short

The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone

For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other men at a distance.

Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

Just a word of advice, if a grown man in dress sweats has a large travel mug, don’t drink from it.

Kids, man, they’re way too honest. They’re like mini-alcoholics.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man’s greatest efforts.

Whoever would change men must change the conditions of their lives.

To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.

There is no sin , and there can be no sin on all the earth , which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God . Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering…

I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.

The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Man is the cruelest animal.

I am loved by thousands, but I feel like the loneliest man in the world

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

Most men are not wicked… They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

When you do what I do for a living you have to have a positive mental attitude; when that positive mental attitude isn’t enough to get you across that jump you have to be man enough to deal with the circumstances. In my case, I’m man enough.

Gaylord (Perry) is a very honorable man. He only calls for the spitter when he needs it.

Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.

There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

I’m a handsome man with a charming personality.

He’s our catalyst, he means everything to this team. I think there’s not a man in here that doesn’t realize that Johnny kind of makes us go. He’s very, very important to us. I know he’s a tough player and he’ll be back out on the field for us soon.

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows

It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see the earth shrink under his feet: we are biologically obliged to the false

Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.

Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.

Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.

A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.