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Quotes About Man

I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.
~ Alan Autry
All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.
~ Alan Jay Lerner
For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
~ Alexander Pope
Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
~ Alexander Pope
A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind.
~ Alexander Pushkin
In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
The sin That neither God nor man can well forgive.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
The heart of man is, so to speak, the paradise of God.
~ Alphonsus Liguori
Mary being destined to negotiate peace between God and man, it was not proper that she should be an accomplice in the disobedience of Adam.
~ Alphonsus Liguori
For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
~ Amy Tan
The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
~ Andre Gide
If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
~ Andre Maurois
I am a traditional man. I'm a product of a traditional man. He sacrificed everything for his family.
~ Andy Garcia
I miss the ocean. I miss diving into the cold water and coming out a new man. On the road it's hard to get that feeling. Showers are okay, but there's nothing quite like being in the ocean.
~ Angus Stone
Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.
~ Ann Beattie
The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical world, the astral or intermediate world, the mental or heavenly world.
~ Annie Besant
All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.
~ Ansel Adams
...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.
~ Anthony Burgess
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
~ Anthony Trollope
Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
~ Anthony Trollope
A man who relentlessly perspires to be excellent evidently inspires many with his intelligence and elegance.
~ Anuj
God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.
~ Aphra Behn
Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
~ Aristotle