Quotes About Man

It's abnormal for any man to have a leader other than God and Christ.

I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.

The Loro Piana man is a very active one: he works hard, and when he has time off, being close to nature is important to him.

I had to change my relationship with alcohol in order to become the man that I knew I could be and that my family would be proud of.

This is just another man, another fight, another payday.

'Freebird' is an anthem, and 'Simple Man' is a very nice song.

Is not the forehead the most prophetic feature of a man?

No man would have torn himself from the comfort of a morning nap to listen to a minstrel in a jacket; none but a maid awakes to songs of love.

No one stays young forever. And me? I lost my youth in the battlefield. If I have my way, I'll never leave this country again. Hell, I'll never leave the county. And if you think I'm the kind of man who'd leave Amelia, you never knew me at all.

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not. A sense of humour was provided to console him for what he is.

Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man.

Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his endeavours to approach God in spite of it aggravate his guilt.

There is nothing more important than being a man, just a plain, ordinary, human man. I know you think Spartacus is something more than a man. He isn't. If he were, then he wouldn't be any good at all. There is no great mystery about Spartacus.

I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]

Man is a part of God, or else he is a beast; and beasts know love and fear and hate and hunger--but not exultation

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshiping.

I have joined an ancient fraternity. I have killed a man.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.

I'm the man that made wrestling famous.

Gandalf faced and suffered death; and came back or was sent back, as he says, with enhanced power. But though one may be in this reminded of the Gospels, it is not really the same thing at all. The Incarnation of God is an infinitely greater thing than anything I would dare to write. Here I am only concerned with Death as part of the nature, physical and spiritual, of Man, and with Hope without guarantees. Letter 181 To Michael Straight [drafts]