Man Quotes (page 565)

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• book
• touching
• manly

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man. Ezra Pound

• wife
• manly
• heavier

A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. E. W. Howe

• greatness
• people
• power

[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. Harry S. Truman

• dream
• believe
• manly

A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber. Mahatma Gandhi

• small
• manly
• leaping

That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind Neil Armstrong

• love
• forgiveness
• learning

You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance. Rudyard Kipling

• girls
• waiting
• she

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones Cher

• him
• dessert
• she

Maybe he was as mad as he said he was, but she could see only a species of miserable fright. Suddenly, like the thud of a boxing glove on her mouth, she saw how close to the edge of everything he was. The agency was tottering, that was bad enough, and now, on top of that, like a grisly dessert following a putrid main course, his marriage was tottering too. She felt a rush of warmth for him, for this man she had sometimes hated and had, for the last three hours at least, feared. A kind of... Stephen King

• solitude
• manly
• to live

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• god
• manly
• fire

Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water. Elizabeth Gilbert

• manly
• look
• time

What was that?" Belgarath asked, coming back around the corner."Brill," Silk replied blandly, pulling his Murgo robe back on."Again?" Belgarath demanded with exasperation. "What was he doing this time?"Trying to fly, last time I saw him." Silk smirked. The old man looked puzzled."He wasn't doing it very well," Silk added. Belgarath shrugged. "Maybe it'll come to him in time."He doesn't really have all that much time." Silk glanced out over the edge."From far below - terribly far below - there... David Eddings

• manly
• wanted
• wants

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood. George Carlin

• manly
• diamond
• giving

I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. Zsa Zsa Gabor

• him
• long love
• manly

He would not deceive himself so much. He would not? and this was the test? pretend to care about women when the only sex that attracted him was his own. He loved men and always had loved them. He longed to embrace them and mingle his being with theirs. Now that the man who returned his love had been lost, he admitted this. E. M. Forster

• him
• distance
• manly

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course—for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a... Carl Jung