Man Quotes (page 511)

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• death
• sorry
• walking

Death strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at The Duck Man. WHY, he said, ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH THAT DUCK?"What duck?"AH. SORRY. Terry Prachett

• house
• change
• mourning

Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque. Oscar Wilde

• look
• manly
• ruled

Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man. Albert Camus

• art
• farmer
• earth

Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization. Daniel Webster

• love
• good
• grief

Get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of Man. Miyamoto Musashi

• wine
• greatness
• persistence

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully. Evelyn Waugh

• courage
• fear
• fearless

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous [He is also a fool.]. Robert A. Heinlein

• stupid
• gentleman
• manly

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• thinking
• commitment
• saying

A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian."Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry Oscar Wilde

• giving
• great
• time

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man. John Steinbeck

• journey
• mindfulness
• saying

Great minds have always seen it. That is why man has survived his journey this long. When we fail to wish any longer to be otherwise than what we are, we will have ceased to evolve. Evolution has to be lived forward. I say this as one who has stood above the bones of much that has vanished, and at midnight has examined his own face. Loren Eiseley

• failure
• die
• manly

Any man who dies with more than $10000 to his name is a failure. Errol Flynn

• manly
• ado
• manned

Now have ado with a man! Ellis Peters

• old man
• old
• understanding

I, an old man, have written this fire report. Among other things, it was important to me, as an exercise for old age, to enlarge my knowledge and spirit so I could accompany young men whose lives I might have lived on their way to death. I have climbed where they climbed, and in my time I have fought fire and inquired into its nature. In addition, I have lived to get a better understanding of myself and those close to me, many of them now dead. Perhaps it is not odd, at the end of this... Norman Maclean

• deep
• support
• manly

Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code. Carl Jung