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One Man Quotes (page 22)

Man, know thyself. I say it out loud. The phrase is one of those phrases with which everyone is familiar, of which everyone acknowledges the value, and which only the most sagacious put into practice. I don't know why. Arnold Bennett
One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong. William Osler
One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man something which for the time being has slipped my memory. P. G. Wodehouse
Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second without hope. Hal Lindsey
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "man is not truly one, but two"
man is not truly one, but two Robert Louis Stevenson
Man is neither entirely a puppet of the gods, nor is he entirely the captain of his own destiny. We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses - one foot is on the horse called "fate," the other on the horse called "free will. Elizabeth Gilbert
Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help? C. S. Lewis
Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way. Stephen King
Maxim Gorky quote: "One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me that a whole..."
One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me that a whole ode from a man . . Maxim Gorky
One viewed the existence of man then as a marvel, and conceded a glamour of wonder to these lice which were caused to cling to a whirling, fire-smote, ice-locked, disease-stricken, space-lost bulb. Stephen Crane
One reason to keep going is that the country was given to us as a sacred charge. It is, as Stephen Vincent Benet says in 'the Devil and Daniel Webster,' not the only place that created free man- but... Read More its a place that demands that we decide what to do with out freedom. You can only punish yourself, That's the existential view. I don't think there's any reward beyond participating, beyond being here. And the antithesis of reward is punishment, and the only punishment that can come... Mort Sahl
Oscar Wilde quote: "One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his..."
One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends. Oscar Wilde
One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up. C. S. Lewis
Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to the animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you -- alas, it is true of almost every one of us! Fyodor Dostoevsky
One show, I did a benefit for a feminist organziation....So it's all feminsts. Gloria Steinem is sitting right up front. I walked out and said, "Look here, I can't stay around here too long with you broads because I gotta get home and cook my man a nice hot dinner. Plus, he likes his blow job by nine forty-five." I though it was funny. They didn't. They didn't find anything funny. I thought, Oh Lord, I made these women mad. I stepped over the line. I continued. "Ladies, calm down. I'm just... Wanda Sykes

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