I love watching Marty Scorsese's films, but they always make me feel terrible about being a man. Votes: 1
Martin DonovanBeing a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done. Votes: 1
James DeanA man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. Votes: 1
Miguel de UnamunoA Gentleman attracts the attention of many, but only has eyes for his own lady. Votes: 1
Thoughts of a real manMan is a paradoxical being-the constant glory and scandal of this world. Votes: 0
Sarvepalli RadhakrishnanMan is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness. Votes: 0
Theodosius DobzhanskyMan, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws. Votes: 0
Baron de MontesquieuA man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite. Votes: 0
Jean de la BruyereMan will always remain an unsuccessful creature till he stops being a mortal being! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanAfter all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic? Votes: 0
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynBeing a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous. Votes: 0
Charles BaudelaireBeing faithful in that which is another man's qualifies us to receive our own. Votes: 0
Edwin Louis ColeYou should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians. Votes: 0
Miles DavisA perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. Votes: 0
Pir Vilayat KhanApparently the average man sees woman alternatelyas an inferior being and as an angel. Votes: 0
Willa HollandThere are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws. Votes: 0
Otto von Bismarckbeing homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does. Votes: 0
Iris MurdochA perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. Votes: 0
Vilayat Inayat KhanEvery man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth Votes: 0
Martin Luther King, Jr.I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight. Votes: 0
Colin BakerGod created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor. Votes: 0
Henri RousseauThe strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldNo man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior. Votes: 0
Sydney SmithEvery man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control. Votes: 0
Herbert SpencerGod... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. Votes: 0
Ayn RandIt is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleI regret being the richest man in the world because that position attracts undeserved publicity. Votes: 0
Bill GatesThe thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man. Votes: 0
John DrydenReligion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaGreat is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins. Votes: 0
Thomas FullerMan is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated. Votes: 0
Alphonse de LamartineMan is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonNo man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawNo man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so. Votes: 0
George Henry LewesI believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being. Votes: 0
James Cash PenneyThe main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions. Votes: 0
James JonesAll other things being equal, a bald man cannot be elected President of the United States. Votes: 0
Victor GoldThink of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise! Votes: 0
Robert Green IngersollBeing a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do. Votes: 0
AristotleNothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness. Votes: 0
Matthew HenryBeing kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt. Votes: 0
Rudyard KiplingBeing a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing oneâs cues. Votes: 0
Lev GrossmanThat no man can truly imagine being happy and that's why happiness isn't for sale here. Votes: 0
Robin HobbA child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man. Votes: 0
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyThe atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny. Votes: 0
William Pitt, 1st Earl of ChathamBeing a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt's tough being out there doing what I'm doing in what they call a man's world. Votes: 0
Koko TaylorI have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me. Votes: 0
James Clerk MaxwellA man who cannot command his temper should not think of being a man in business. Votes: 0
Lord ChesterfieldIt is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man. Votes: 0
H. Rider HaggardClothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of being one! Votes: 0
Coco ChanelI have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me. Votes: 0
James C. MaxwellBodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. Votes: 0
Pope Pius XIIWhy are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together. Votes: 0
Jack NicklausMan, therefore, according to the Vedanta philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaMy father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. Votes: 0
Richard DiebenkornBeing the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast. Votes: 0
LeBron JamesThe truly unsettling thing about being a woman was needing a man to realise one's full potential Votes: 0
Margaret WayIt's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her. Votes: 0
Bette DavisAll matters being spiritual; man or woman can only find peace when peace is realized from within. Votes: 0
T.F. HodgeA man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed. Votes: 0
MenciusWhy should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed? Votes: 0
Lin YutangIndeed, a man is rather being thought than thinking, when a new thought arises in his mind. Votes: 0
George MacDonaldIt is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature. Votes: 0
Christopher MorleyIn marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. Votes: 0
Robert Louis StevensonBeing afraid of having an endoscopy (if you're a man) and giving birth (if you're a woman). Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoBeing your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father. Votes: 0
Nolan BushnellA man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts. Votes: 0
James AllenBeing abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man. Votes: 0
Mary McCarthyWhether it's being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I've learned a lot. Votes: 0
Ashton KutcherI'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There! Votes: 0
Ray BradburyEvery man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. Votes: 0
William S. BurroughsThe curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself Votes: 0
SophoclesModern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man. Votes: 0
Hans JonasBut who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind? Votes: 0
Merle ShainAin't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common. Votes: 0
Robert J. LeRoyMy mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man. Votes: 0
Yayoi KusamaAin't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common. Votes: 0
Satchel PaigeA man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free. Votes: 0
Khalil GibranMan selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends. Votes: 0
Charles DarwinNot to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life? Votes: 0
Robert FrostVice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action. Votes: 0
James HarringtonThe secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoevskyFortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him. Votes: 0
Publilius SyrusBushido is in being crazy to die. Fifty or more could not kill one such a man. Votes: 0
Nabeshima NaoshigeA man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future. Votes: 0
Albert CamusMost of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room. Votes: 0
Blaise PascalNo man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. Votes: 0
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeAin't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common Votes: 0
Satchel PaigeMan is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being. Votes: 0
Carl JungYou cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you. Votes: 0
Karl PopperMan need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. Votes: 0
Gilbert RyleLife at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else. Votes: 0
Jean de la BruyereWhy lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man! Votes: 0
Jules VerneAs an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid. Votes: 0
Andrew GarfieldIt`s not about women acting like man, it`s about women acting like woman and being sucsessful Votes: 0
Zooey DeschanelBeing a man of the theater and a hedonist, I find the idea of building coffins very romantic. Votes: 0
Nick OffermanHow does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they Votes: 0
John KeatsThe man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap. Votes: 0
Ayn RandBeing a leading man... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen. Votes: 0
Steve CarellOne thing that prevents a man from being a good father is he hasn't completed being a boy. Votes: 0
Iyanla VanzantThat's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one. Votes: 0
Rod SteigerOnly one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love Votes: 0
Soren KierkegaardWhen a man is right he wants to get all that is coming to him for being right. Votes: 0
Jesse Lauriston LivermoreIâd say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being. Votes: 0
Logan LermanA good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonThere is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet. Votes: 0
Robert JordanWhen a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily. Votes: 0
StendhalThat man is a religious being, is universally conceded, for it has been seen to be universally true. Votes: 0
Simon GreenleafBeing scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him. Votes: 0
Louis L'AmourTelling a writer to relax is like telling a man to relax while being prodded for a possible hernia. Votes: 0
William ZinsserDemons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man. Votes: 0
Sigmund FreudA man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once. Votes: 0
Blaise PascalBeing a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed. Votes: 0
Harry S. TrumanA man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal. Votes: 0
Jean GiraudouxThe best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once. Votes: 0
Pietro AretinoIt does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby... it inspires him. Votes: 0
Ina May GaskinI have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. Votes: 0
Blaise PascalMan is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonA fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity. Votes: 0
Kedar JoshiOut of love, God becomes man. He says: "See, here is what it is to be a human being. Votes: 0
Soren KierkegaardA man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong. Votes: 0
Simone de BeauvoirThe lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit. Votes: 0
Roger L'EstrangeHere I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain. Votes: 0
T. S. EliotMan is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him. Votes: 0
Dorothy DunnettAt 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass Votes: 0
Mark TwainThe vice president (Nixon) seems like a man who is acting like a nice man rather than being one. Votes: 0
Ann WhitmanMan is in reality a spiritual being and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy. Votes: 0
Abdu'l-BaháWhat can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries? Votes: 0
Joseph AddisonIn sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back. Votes: 0
Camille PagliaA boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man. Votes: 0
Herbert HooverIt often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauThe loves and hours of the life of a man, They are swift and sad, being born of the sea. Votes: 0
Algernon Charles SwinburneAll I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse. Votes: 0
Mark TwainAt times, it felt so odd being with a man in such an intimate way who was not my husband. Votes: 0
Brenda PerlinWhat a way to pay a man back for helping you. Gah, I suck as a human being.' (Shahara) Votes: 0
Sherrilyn KenyonA woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . . Votes: 0
George MeredithIts not easy being a man you know. I had to get dressed today⦠and there are other pressures. Votes: 0
Dylan MoranI want to write a song called Two Straws and a Spoon, about one man being cuckolded by a milkshake. Votes: 0
Jarod KintzI regretted not being a person in shape many a day while we were making this film [Swiss Army Man]. Votes: 0
Paul DanoA person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this. Votes: 0
Robert BlyEach man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied. Votes: 0
Henry MillerBeing a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it. Votes: 0
Helen WaddellMan is the being who, from cradle to grave has to abide by either his man-made laws or heavenly law. Votes: 0
Muhammad Atta-ullah FaizaniBeing an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that? Votes: 0
Jeanne MoreauWhat's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man? Votes: 0
Rita Mae BrownAh! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonI would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one. Votes: 0
Terry McMillanIt was not only that he was a great man, but, oh, there was such fun in being led by him. Votes: 0
Edward J. Renehan Jr.I like being a woman in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants. Votes: 0
Whitney HoustonA man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauBeing a comedian is like being a con man. You have to make 'em like you before you can fool 'em. Votes: 0
Flip WilsonWhatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonWho is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see? Votes: 0
Babe RuthI doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonIâve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl heâs just ruined Votes: 0
Lisa KleypasI love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it's a dichotomy. Votes: 0
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