Quotes About Man

A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.

Will you make a song for him?' the woman asked. 'He has a song,' the man replied. 'He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire.

They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man's laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death," Ned said evenly. "Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor.

I heard of a man who had a razor made of Valyrian steel. He cut his head off trying to shave.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

My God, the man is a fascist - a fascist, I tell you.

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope.

God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.

I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.

I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.