Quotes About Man

In the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus says, "There is light within a man of light, and he lights up the whole world.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Lo, when man's force doth ope The virgin doors, there is no cure nor hope For what is lost.

For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds of hate should follow till the earth his life immure. Nor when he dies can he boast of being truly free.

The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.

The success of a man is through the soles of his feet, that of a woman is from her legs.

He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.

Mon ami , let this be a lesson to you. You are a man . Behave, then, like a man ! It is against Nature for a man to grovel. Women and Nature have almost exactly the same reactions! Remember it is better to take the largest plate within reach and fling it at a woman's head than it is to wriggle like a worm whenever she looks at you!

There's a saying by some great writer or other that no man is a hero to his valet. Perhaps everyone ought to have a valet.

a mad man has all the advantages on his side.

A ridiculous-looking little man. The sort of little man one could never take seriously.

M. Van Aldin is an obstinate man," said Poirot drily. "I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now whenever that young man looked he looked like a sheep I take back all is this morning. It is genuine.

The real excitement of being a girl - of being, that is, a woman in embryo - was that life was such a wonderful gamble. You didn't know what was going to happen to you. That was what made being a woman so exciting. No worry about what you should be or do - Biology would decide. You were waiting for The Man, and when the man came, he would change your entire life, you can say what you like, that is an exciting point of view to hold at the threshold of life.

The little man removed his hat. What an egg-shaped head he had.

I walked into Cartwright's and ordered two coffee ice cream sodas—to steady my nerves. A man, I suppose, would have had a stiff peg; but girls derive a lot of comfort from ice cream sodas. I applied myself to the end of the straw with gusto. The cool liquid went trickling down my throat in the most agreeable manner. I pushed the first glass aside empty.

Colonel Race was not good at small talk and might indeed have posed as the model of a strong silent man so beloved by an earlier generation of novelists.

You ought to give him at least–"' 'and here he mentioned a sum of several thousands of pounds. 'That's very high,' said the V.I.P. 'You've got to get a good man,' said Belcher. 'Mind you, if you offered it to me, I wouldn't take it on myself, at that price.' That was the operative sentence. A few days later Belcher was begged, on his own valuation, to accept such a sum,

Idealan muž je arheolog jer što je žena starija to ga više zanima.

but it is one of the great consolations in nature that a man, however unattractive, will find that he is attractive—to some woman.

I have always believed that a love of nature was essentially a healthy sign in a man.

Bad habit, lunch. A banana and a water biscuit is all any sane healthy man should need in the middle of the day.

But murder's a violent crime. Associate it more with a man." -- Evelyn Howard

He needs your prayers.' 'Is he then an unhappy man?' Poirot said: 'So unhappy that he has forgotten what happiness means. So unhappy that he does not know he is unhappy.' The nun said softly: 'Ah, a rich man …' Hercule Poirot said nothing – for he knew there was nothing to say …