Top 1200 Wisest Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.

Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.

ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.

The power that holds Africa is human, and it is recognized that whatsoever man has done, man can do.

No man's condition is so base as his; None more accurs'd than he; for man esteems Him hateful, 'cause he seems not what he is; God hates him, 'cause he is not what he seems; What grief is absent, or what mischief can Be added to the hate of God and man?

A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.

Man, Ben Henderson, Donald Cerrone... these guys are a different level, man.

The question is -- Who will get to heaven first; the man who talks or the man who acts?

The truly wise man is he who believes the Bible against the opinions of any man. If the Bible says one thing, and any body of men says another, the wise man will decide, "This book is the Word of him who cannot lie".

Touch a man who can't walk up right, and that lame man, he's gonna fly.

Joe Paterno was a well-educated man, and he was also a man from a different time.

The response is to the image, not to the man, since 99 percent of the voters have no contact with the man.

When gratitude dies on the altar of a man's heart, that man is well-nigh hopeless.

Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.

A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

I don't think I'm an idealist. I'm a realist. And I see the progress. The progress has been remarkable. Look at the emancipation of woman in my lifetime. You're sitting here as a female. Look what's happened to the same-sex marriages. To tell somebody a man can become a woman, a woman can become a man, and a man can marry a man, they would have said, "You're crazy." But it's a reality today. So the world is changing. And you shouldn't - you know - be despairing because it's never happened before. Nothing new ever happened before.

Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.

No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.

I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make man happy.

In New Mexico, my local church did a nativity play, and I was cast as Wise Man #3. Of course, Wise Man #3 had no damn lines. Wise Man #1 had all the lines! I stood there thinking, 'I could do that role so much better!' From that moment on, I knew I wanted to be an actor.

A young apprentice applied to a master carpenter for a job. The older man asked him, "Do you know your trade?" "Yes, sir!" the young man replied proudly. "Have you ever made a mistake?" the older man inquired. "No, sir!" the young man answered, feeling certain he would get the job. "Then there's no way I'm going to hire you," said the master carpenter, "because when you make one, you won't know how to fix it.

The lifting up of the woman does not require the tearing down of the man. In fact, a strong woman appreciates a strong man. Conversely, a strong man is not intimidated by a strong woman.

A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause Of justice absolute 'twixt man and man.

The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.

A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.

A well educated man with an independent mind is a type of man liked by no government!

A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

A man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit that he is that man.

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

I find it really interesting that people are shocked by the raw, natural representation of a woman and a man's body. I guess it's subverting our expectations in terms of how we've come to expect women to present themselves when they're being naked. Also the woman's and the man's role is subverted in that image. You'd expect the man to be carrying the woman.

A man should know about himself two or three things: whether he is a coward; whether he is an honest man or given to lies; whether he is an ambitious man. One should define oneself first of all in those terms, and only then in terms of culture, race, creed.

I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

The best man of all is he who knows everything himself. Good also the man who accepts another's sound advice; but the man who neither knows himself nor takes to hear what another says, he is no good at all.

A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God.

All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due.

Man didn't put me in this place [in entertaining industry]. I'm in this position because of God. And so, if man didn't put me in this place, I really don't see no man that can take me out of here.

The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as to everything respecting foreign affairs. Let the General Government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and our General Government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very inexpensive one; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants.

Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?

I have changed for the last time--this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you.