Top 1200 Good Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him. And Man gave unto God a multitude of names, that he might be Lord over the earth when it was suited to man.

A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.

The man who has led a good life will find many allies.

Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

If our supreme value is the development of the Western tradition - of a man for whom the highest thing in life is man, for whom love for man, respect for man, and the dignity of man, are supreme values - then we cannot ask the question that says, "if it is better for our survival, might we drop these values?"

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.

A man's a man for a' that. . . . . A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith he mauna fa' that! . . . Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that, That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree and a' that. For a' that, and a' that, It's comin' yet, for a' that, When man to man, the world o'er, Shall brithers be for a' that.

You can't tell how good a man or a watermelon is 'til they get thumped.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

Man, the only thing that's important is what is due tomorrow. I don't care what it is as long as it's good.

I might say that the debate between atheists and Christians is rather stale to me, because the Christians say, "You must be a Christian, or you must be a religious man, in order to be good," and the atheists will say, "It's beneath the dignity of a free man to bow his knee to a god, as if he were a sinner," or something like that.

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.

A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

I'm inspired to write songs by all kinds of things. Good sex with a good man, that might inspire a song. Bad sex - that might inspire a different kind of song.

To speak impartially, both sayings are very true: that man to man is a kind of God; and that man to man is an arrant wolf. The first is true, if we compare citizens amongst themselves; and the second, if we compare cities.

A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

A good place to meet a man is at the dry cleaner. These men usually have jobs and bathe.

A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.

The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing, and who is able and strong enough to do the right thing is a truly great man.

I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

It's good to see a man who isn't afraid to live out his masculinity.

I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

I am an unmarried man, as opposed to a single man. A bachelor, according to the dictionary, is a man who has never been married. An unmarried man is not married at the moment. Many of these terms have fallen into disuse.

I've been a bad boy trying to be a good man my whole life.

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.

You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her. Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a good deal to do." What do you make, Madam ?" Many things." For instance ---" For instance," returned Madam Defarge , composedly , Shrouds." The man moved a little further away, as soon as he could, feeling it mightily close and oppressive .

When we think good thoughts, we feel good. When we feel good, we make good choices. When we feel good and make good choices, we draw more good experiences into our lives. It really is that simple … and elegant … and true.

The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness and distorted way of looking at things produced, or helped to produce, such incalculable evil; there is a wide political applicability in the remark attributed to a famous Texan, to the effect that he might, in the end, pardon a man who shot him on purpose, but that he would surely never forgive one who did so accidentally.

Man is completely out of phase with nature. Nature is woman. Man is the intruder. The man who re-attunes himself with nature is the man who de-mans himself or eliminates himself as man.

When man possesses a good, sound body that does not overpower him nor disturb the equilibrium in him, he possesses a divine gift. In short, a good constitution facilitates the rule of the soul over the body, but it is not impossible to conquer a bad constitution by training.

A good man is hard to find," she said wistfully. "Not everyone is as lucky as you are.

Good fortune almost always makes some change in a man's behavior - in his manner of speaking and acting. It is a great weakness to want to bedeck oneself in qualities which are not his own. If he esteemed virtue above all other things, neither the favors of fortune nor the advantages of position would change a man's face or heart.

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

Neither conservatives nor humorists believe man is good. But left-wingers do.

Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished animal and an unfinished man. It is this incurable unfinishedness which sets man apart from other living things. For, in the attempt to finish himself, man becomes a creator. Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.

Its a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy.

A man who excels in creating new things is the one who is good at dreaming when not sleeping.

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did. It is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men and women - contributes to their health, happiness, development - is good for business.

Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.

We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?

Bobby Cremins really knows basketball, and he is a good man, too.

A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.

Advertising is prima facie evidence that the man who pays believes that advertising is good. It has brought great results to others, it must be good for him. So he takes it like some secret tonic which others have endorsed. If the business thrives, the tonic gets the credit. Otherwise, the failure is due to fate.

My first husband Alec was a very good-looking man, but by the time he came out of the war, his sort of acting was no longer in demand - although he was a working-class boy, he was actually very good at suave handsome-men parts. I began to get successful when he was out of fashion; it was agony to watch him.

A man who is wrathful with us is a sick man; we must apply a plaster to his heart - love; we must treat him kindly, speak to him gently, lovingly. And if there is not deeply-rooted malice against us within him, but only a temporary fit of anger, you will see how his heart, or his malice, will melt away through your kindness and love - how good will conquer evil. A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.

Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.

Which would be worse - to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?

I hope through 'The Family Man,' I get some good offers.

Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him.

Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.

God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.