Man Quotes

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
Saul David Alinsky



A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
James Allen



The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.
Ali bin Abu-Talib



An empty man is full of himself.
Edward Abbey



Beloved is man, for he was created in the image of God.
Akiba ben Joseph



A man can be valued through his sayings.
Ali bin Abu-Talib



If a man is not bound down, he is sure to succeed.
Alexander Graham Bell



I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
Aesop



The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
Honor de Balzac



Perseverance must have some practical end, or it does not avail the man possessing it. A person without a practical end in view becomes a crank or an idiot. Such persons fill our asylums.
Alexander Graham Bell



A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it; an amateur is one who can't when he does feel like it.
James Agate



And since these things are so, we must suppose that there are contained many things and of all sorts in the things that are uniting, seeds of all things, with all sorts of shapes and colours and savours.
Anaxagoras



A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 pm to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished even before lunch.
Fred Allen



Do not blame a man who delays in securing what are his just rights but blame lies on him who grasps the rights which do not belong to him.
Ali bin Abu-Talib



Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
Saint Thomas Aquinas