Man S Quotes
224 Man S quotes by 188 unique authors
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I do not believe in God, but I believe God is man’s greatest idea. Those incapable of religious feeling or those (like hard-core gay activists)…
— Camille Paglia
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William Perkins said, “The end of a man’s calling is not to gather riches for himself…but to serve God in the serving of man, and…
— Leland Ryken
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The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin Enger writes with…
— Benjamin Percy
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In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by man with specific…
— Jacques Attali
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Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is to add murder…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I’m a woman in a man’s job and I don’t have the luxury of being an ass,
— Joan Clarke
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Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
— Thomas Carlyle
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Truth is superior to man s wisdom.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg…
— Alice Meynell
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The way men are seen in photography, in fashion, and the way that men look at pictures of themselves has changed in recent years. It…
— Mario Testino
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My daddy never really lived before he died, He could never count on justice or know a free man’s pride, And now it’s almost certain…
— Bob Teague
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The Word says, ‘Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world’ (1 John 2:15). Jesus warned, ‘Beware of covetousness: for a…
— David Wilkerson
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I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy.
— Philip Roth
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A man’s mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.
— Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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... there are four women in every man’s heart. The Maid in the Meadow, the Demon Lover, the Stouthearted Woman, the Tall and Quiet Woman.
— Annie Proulx
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He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy,…
— Mark Twain
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You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I…
— Robertson Davies
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Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that,…
— Walker Percy
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In a man’s letters his soul lies naked.
— Samuel Johnson
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The Hallows, the Hallows. A desperate man’s dream!
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Who Wrote These Man S Quotes
188 authors contributed a total of 224 Man S Quotes, led by these top contributors: