Quotes
Quotes about Man
It is a creature That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague To beguile many and be beguiled by one.
Tempt not a desperate man.
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest, When the gray-haired New Englander sees round his board The old broken links of affection restored, When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before. What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.
The idea of masculinity has now been commercialized. Femininity had been commercialized a while ago. But men, in general, have lost what the meaning of what being a man is all about.
The internal qualities once said to embody manhood- sure footedness, inner strength, confidence of purpose- are merchandised to men to enhance their manliness. What passes for masculinity is being extracted and sold back to men. Literally in the case of Viagra.
In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty, and I'll show you a man.
I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady workâthe night watchman.
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.
A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact.
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
'Tis bad enough in man or woman To steal a goose from off a common; But surely he's without excuse Who steals a common from the goose.
