"Man" quotes | Thousands Of Quotes

Search for quotes

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

Joseph Butler

Happiness

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.

Robert Burton

Life

Man

One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.

Richard Francis Burton

Death

Man

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

Richard Burton

Gold

Man