Quotes Tagged "man"

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

Man is the cruelest animal.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.