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Quotes About Man

The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
~ Otto Weininger
Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece.
~ Robert Bloch
Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Because a woman brought death a bright Maiden overcame it, and so the highest blessing in all of creation lies in the form of a woman, since God has become man in a sweet and blessed Virgin.
~ Hildegard of Bingen
For women, beauty is more important than the mind, because the man is easier to watch than to think.
~ Marlene Dietrich
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
~ Germaine Greer
The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
~ Stanley Baldwin
Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
~ Maria Montessori
I like stability in a man, honesty, and security about who you are and what you think of yourself.
~ Mawra Hocane
Oscar always opens up doors, especially the night of the Oscars. On that night, you hold that gold man, and it's like having Gandalf's staff. You can go anywhere and do anything. It's a talisman of such power.
~ Alex Gibney
God is the Man, and there's another Man, Stan 'The Man' Musial in St. Louis.
~ Albert Pujols
Everything that I said that I feel like I want, deserve, the type of respect that I want from a man, I still believe that. I still am going to hold those standards for any man in my life.
~ Hannah Brown
No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.
~ David Hilbert
I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.
~ Robert Lansing
My father (like most fathers) always taught me that a man is someone who stands by his principles, someone who lives with integrity and puts his family before himself. That last one is important, because as a young boy, it's your pops who provides you with security.
~ Steven Crowder
Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation - never ceases to love.
~ Paul Bourget
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
~ Plato
Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.
~ Plato
You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your man.
~ Rick Riordan
Since therefore all things are ordered in subserviency to the good of man, they are so ordered by Him that made both man and them.
~ Stephen Charnock