Every Man Quotes - Page 23

• I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear, but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife, but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shame -faced spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom ; it fills one full of obstacles; it made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found; it beggars any man that keeps it; it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing; and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Mean, Men

  "King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus".

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• In my paranoid world every storekeeper thinks I’m stealing, every man thinks I’m a prostitute or a lesbian, every woman thinks I’m a lesbian or arrogant, and every child and animal sees the real me and it is evil.

  Miranda July

  Children, Real, Men

  Miranda July (2011). “It Chooses You”, p.6, Canongate Books

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• In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Unique, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Daniel Breazeale, R. J. Hollingdale (1983). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.127, Cambridge University Press

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• It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.

  Pope John Paul II

  Men, Dignity, Duty

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• So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Love, Men, Order

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• Every man has a weakness," he patiently explained. "I'll find theirs, I promise you." "Every man?" "Yes," he answered emphatically. His hand moved to the back of her neck. Twisting her curls around his fist, he jerked her head back. His face loomed over hers, his breath warm and sweet as he stared down into her eyes. "What is your weakness, Brodick?" she asked. "You.

  Julie Garwood

  Sweet, Eye, Men

  Julie Garwood (2010). “Ransom”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.

  Betty Smith

  Men, Littles, Wells

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

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• Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Lying, Men, World

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• Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.

  Ellis Peters

  Men, Dedication, Giving

  Ellis Peters (2014). “The Potter's Field”, p.62, Head of Zeus

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• You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Ideas, Gnats

  Victor Hugo (2009). “Things Seen (Choses Vues)”, p.78, Wildside Press LLC

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• For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Thinking, Doe

  John Steinbeck (2001). “Novels, 1942-1952”

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• When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them. “A man is what he thinks about all day long.” [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. Aldous Huxley

  Andy Warhol

  Men, Thinking, Long

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• Beauty is something that is hard to debate. Every man thinks his ideal the best. But the wittiest woman rise to the top of this structure, conventional beauty often taking a back seat to a woman possessed of a clever tongue.

  Anne Mallory

  Clever, Men, Thinking

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• Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Calling, Honest

  Ayn Rand (2014). “The Unconquered: With Another, Earlier Adaptation of We the Living”, p.310, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (quoting an obituary) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Spring, Men, Inevitability Of Death

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• Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Crazy, Men, Mad

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841). “Essays”, p.26

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• It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the compass lost its power and spun aimlessly on its bearings. Alan Bishop

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Men, Sea, Soul

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Glide Path”, p.37, RosettaBooks

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• When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

  Thomas Hobbes

  War, Men, Victory

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Thinking, Degrees

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.3, Hayes Barton Press

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• Every man becomes the image of the God he adores. He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead. He who loves corruption rots. He who loves a shadow becomes, himself, a shadow. He who loves things that must perish lives in dread of their perishing.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, Shadow, Worship

  Thomas Merton (2002). “No Man Is an Island”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every man needs his Siren to check his courage and strength when he hears her song in his travels through the unknown.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Song, Men, Needs

  "Siren". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic, www.poemhunter.com.

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• Every man would fall in love with their voice, their lovely appearance, but no man would ever get past that. They'd never really know the girls for who they actually were, never really love them. It would be impossible for any of the four girls to ever really fall in love and be genuinely loved in return.

  Amanda Hocking

  Girl, Falling In Love, Men

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• The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Men, Greatness

  1906 Charles Dickens, ch.1.

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• In King’s Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces… Every man’s a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players." Petyr Baelish

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Player, Men

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• There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

  George R. R. Martin

  War, Men, Hands

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three”, p.343, Bantam

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