Quotes Tagged "man"

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

When you look for a man- what you want to look for is a man with the heart of a poor boy and the mind of a conqueror.

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.