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Man Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings…
- A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.
- I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get…
- A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
- And nevertheless, when they watched him leave the house, this man they themselves had urged to conquer the world, then they were the ones left…
- A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
- No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
- An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
- Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the…
- She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in…
- She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and…
- Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny…
- But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no…
- She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal…
- Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear…
- One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.
- She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she…
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