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Man Quotes by Flann O'Brien
- I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that…
- Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the…
- After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would reach unless I…
- The continual cracking of your feet on the road makes a certain quantity of road come up into you. When a man dies they say…
- Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding…
- When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT…
- When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion…
- My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
- When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night,…
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