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Manly Quotes (page 303)

Charles Schwab quote: "The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle..."
The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away Charles Schwab
Muhammad Ali quote: "I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!"
I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty! Muhammad Ali
How can one explain the attraction terror holds for some minds? and why for intellectuals? . . .In a totalitarian and terrorist regime, man is no longer a unique being with infinite possibilities and limitless choices but a number, a puppet, with just this difference? numbers and puppets are not susceptible to fear. Elie Wiesel
John Steinbeck quote: "When a man says he does not want to speak of something he..."
When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else. John Steinbeck
O God!' I screamed, and 'O God!' again and again; for there before my eyes--pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death--there stood Henry Jekyll! Robert Louis Stevenson
The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference is, this guy gets business cards. Augusten Burroughs
Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together. Ernest Hemingway
He turned away and offered his hand in parting. She didn't take it or say anything. But from where I was behind the door I could see her face through the crack. I pitied her to see how deathly pale that sweet little face had gone. Hearing no answer, Pechorin took a few steps towards the door. He was trembling, and I might say I think he was fit to do what he'd threatened as a joke. That's the sort of man he was, there was no knowing him. Mikhail Lermontov
Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting? James Clavell
Louis L'Amour quote: "A man marries by accident, a woman by design."
A man marries by accident, a woman by design. Louis L'Amour
Henry David Thoreau quote: "The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage."
The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage. Henry David Thoreau
It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him. Voltaire
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Hardship is a man-made device because man cannot exist without..."
Hardship is a man-made device because man cannot exist without passion. Religion is somewhere between fear and sex. Jeanette Winterson
Mark Twain quote: "I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with..."
I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey. Mark Twain
When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion of existence. Why have men spent the centuries seeking to overcome the awakened body? Put it to sleep, that is a better way. Let it serve only to turn the sleeping soul over, to change the blood-stream and thus make possible a deeper and more refined sleep. Flann O'Brien

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