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Quotes About Man

You know, you may not be able to bake but any man who does laundry is all right in my book." "Don't forget the part where I turn into a big cuddly wolf," I pointed out, grinning at her. "It's not every guy who can do that." "Very true.
~ Evangeline Anderson
Death is the one friend who never fails any man.
~ Evangeline Walton
I had a horrible suspicion that I'd wind up in the same heartbreak hotel as I did with men. 'No you won't,' he reasoned. 'You be the man and that way you get to be the shit.
~ Eve Babitz
They are ever eager to assure us that man's most sublime thoughts of the Transcendent are but a little better than his worst: that loving intuition is the only certain guide. "By love may He be gotten and holden, but by thought never.
~ Evelyn Underhill
I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.
~ Everett Dirksen
If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good
~ Ezra Pound
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
~ Ezra Pound
With UsuraWith usura hath no man a house of good stoneeach block cut smooth and well fitting.
~ Ezra Pound
Time, space, neither life nor death is the answer. And of man seeking good, doing evil. In meiner Heimat where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard. Ezra Pound, from "Canto CXV" (The Cantos of Ezra Pound)
~ Ezra Pound
The hells move in cycles, No man can see his own end. The Gods have not returned. "They have never left us." They have not returned.
~ Ezra Pound
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghosty heart
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The man was so smooth he wouldn't slide on an oil slick.
~ Faith Hunter
The spouse of a woman is a man, the spouse of a man is his livelihood. #WomensDay2020
~ Famous Proverb
God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
~ Farrah Fawcett
A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.
~ Fawn M. Brodie
for a man functions best if he ventures out into the world from a domestic setting in which his restless sexual and procreative energies are given liberty.
~ Fay Weldon
the Qur'?n appears to be interested in three types knowledge for man. One is the knowledge of nature which has been made subservient to man, i.e., the physical sciences. The second crucial type is the knowledge of history (and geography): the Qur'?n persistently asks man to "travel on the earth" and see for himself what happened to bygone civilizations and why they rose and fell. The third is the knowledge of man himself.
~ Fazlur Rahman
Nature exists for man to exploit for his own ends, while the end of man himself is nothing else but to serve God, to be grateful to Him, and to worship Him alone.
~ Fazlur Rahman
There is such a grateful tickling in the mind of man in being commended that even when we know the praises which are bestowed on us are not our due, we are not angry with the author?s insincerity.
~ Feltham
A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist
~ Fernand Leger
Pobres animales atropellados por el hombre, despreciados por la Iglesia y dejados a su suerte por la mano infame de Dios.
~ Fernando Vallejo
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
~ Fidel Castro
Th' dead ar-re always pop'lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an' refuse to help his fam'ly, all in wan night.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
A pint of plain is your only man.
~ Flann O'Brien