Every Man Quotes - Page 18

• Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

  Albert Camus

  Birthday, Men, Age

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.57, Vintage

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• Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

  Albert Camus

  Artist, Men, Stronger

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

  Albert Camus

  Children, Men, Air

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• Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.

  Graydon Carter

  Men, Mind, Bars

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• Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

  William Ellery Channing

  Inspirational, Character, Men

  William Ellery Channing (1873). “The complete works of W. E. Channing, D. D., with an introduction”

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• Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Best Friend, Men

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• Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Men, Giving

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• In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Sleep, Men, Evil

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Art, Reading, Men

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• Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Men, Heritage

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• Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

  Robertson Davies

  Funny, Wise, Dog

  Robertson Davies (1968). “Marchbanks' almanack”

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• Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Happiness, Thanksgiving

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Sketches by Boz”, p.172

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• Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

  Denis Diderot

  Men, Literature, Dignity

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Men, Alive, Ratios

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2001: A Space Odyssey”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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• Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Mean, Sacrifice

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2419, Penguin

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• Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov's question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Mean, Men

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.41, Google Publishing

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• Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--

  Emily Dickinson

  Children, Lying, Congratulations

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.431, Harvard University Press

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• The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hurt, Pain, Men

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• There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Military, Men, Soldier

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• If God is an author and the universe is the biggest novel ever written, I may feel as if I'm the lead character in the story, but like every man and woman on Earth, I am a suporting player in one of billions of subplots. You know what happens to supporting players. Too often they are killed off in chapter 3, or in chapter 10, or in chapter 35. A supporting player always has to be looking over his shoulder.

  Dean Koontz

  Character, Player, Men

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• Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

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• Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational Sports, Men, Body

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Higher Laws'.

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• Every man is like the company he wont to keep.

  Euripides

  Men, Company

  Phoenix fragment 812 (translation by Morris Hickey Morgan).

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• Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Sacred, Springtime

  graf Leo Tolstoy, Nathan Haskell Dole (1917). “The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoi”

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• The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Men, Rights

  1963 On sending national guardsmen to ensure peaceful integration at the University of Alabama. Address to the nation, 11 Jun.

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