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Quotes About Man

Sometimes it's nice to have a man around the house. But a dog will clean the dishes.
~ Lois Greiman, Unmanned
There aren't many things a man finds more appealing than loyalty. Unless it's a woman with really big knockers.
~ Lois Greiman, Unscrewed
My daughter asked if the boogie man was scary. I said, "Not as scary as the boogie woman.
~ Randy Kagan
But giving drugs to a cat is no joke, Kemp!
~ H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
A dutiful wife enables a good man to add her hands to his own for self-applause.
~ Tom Morrison
You should be home sleeping. What is the use of having a man in the house, if he cannot take care of you for a while?" "Mmm, " I said. "I give up. What's the use of having a man in the house?
~ Patricia Briggs, Blood Bound
My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.
~ Benjamin De Casseres
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
~ Marquis de Sade
It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.
~ Thomas Harris
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
~ Horace Walpole
See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
~ Richard P. Feynman
The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.
~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand As is a man were author of himself And knew no other kin.
~ William Shakespeare
I don't like rules, especially the unwritten ones that say I need to let myself be controlled by my man.
~ Stephanie Tyler, Defiance
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
~ Pablo Casals
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future
~ Joseph Conrad
When a quiet man is moved to passion, it seems the very earth will shake.
~ Francine Mathews
Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Can you see through the night, woman, that you stare so upon it? Man, what sparks do your eyes follow in the smouldering darkness?
~ Amy Lowell
Sin is the only heritage of the natural man...
~ James Baldwin
A man without a good heart is like a roaring fire in a dry field.he damages wherever he sets foot and moves on.
~ Jackson Taviri
My disadvantages will tire him as they would any reasonable man of small expectations." - Jane Adams
~ Noorilhuda, The Governess
Aft the more honour, forward the better man
~ Horatio Nelson