« All Man Quotes · Charles Bukowski's Page
Man Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with…
- You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
- I think a man can keep on drinking for centuries, he'll never die; especially wine or beer...I like drunkards, man, because drunkards, they come out…
- I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I…
- I have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with shiny shoes.
- There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only…
- The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man…
- Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without…
- No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.
- I got lost somehow, began staring up her legs. I was always a leg man. It was the first thing I saw when I was…
- I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.
- An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way
- It’s nice enough to make a man weep, but I don’t weep, do you?
- The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out,…
- …He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days,…
- Never trust a man in a jumpsuit
- A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.
- I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
- for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I…
- there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's…
- I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that…
- I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things…
- I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.
- I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me.…
- That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle