Quotes
Quotes about Man
Giving advice to a stupid man is like giving salt to a squirrel.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.
If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. - Mannequin: My Life as a Model.
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.
My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.
It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn't look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose.
Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The opposite of pride is actually a lack of self esteem. A humble person is totally different from a person who cannot recognize and appreciate himself as part of this worlds marvels.
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudicesâagainst half the human raceâthat are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.
If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.
A free man is a jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.
I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.
A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.
Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?
Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.
