Quotes About Ego

Never let a little man to sit on a big chair; that would be a big disaster!

Realise well, proud little man that even the highest clouds don't shine! For above all things there lie brightest stars.

A man may be humble through vainglory.

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.

Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.

I'm too ambitious to give another man credit, even if that other man is only myself in disguise.

a man doesn't prove he's a man by getting an erection. He's only a real man if he can pleasure a woman. And if he can pleasure a prostitute, he'll think he's the best lover on the block" -Nyah

Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

Man is the dwarf of himself.

The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.

In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.

When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it.

A man likes to sleep with a brainy girl. She's a challenge. If he makes good with her, he figures he must be good himself.

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself.

Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.

I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

The two men stared at each other. Assumptions were made, judgments rendered, dicks measured.