Quotes
Quotes about Man
In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death.
One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.
A man in debt is so far a slave.
It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. [Lat., Improbi hominis est mendacio fallere.]
We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves. [Ger., Man wird betrogen, man betrugt sich selbst.]
Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. [It., Non mancano pretesti quando si vuole.]
The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent. [Fr., Le bruit est pour le fat, la plainte pour le sot; L'honnete homme trompe s'eloigne et ne dit mot.]
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
Most of our executives make very sound decisions. The trouble is many of them have turned out not to have been right.
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?.
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do.
