Every Man Quotes - Page 21

• Every man is a hero of his own story.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Hero, Men, Stories

  Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.323, Macmillan

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• Every man has within himself the entire human condition

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Human Condition, Humans

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• Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Epic Poems, Voice

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he receives a salary disproportionate to his work; to take from the people--often in poverty--taxes to be spent on constructing cannon, torpedoes, and other instruments of butchery, so as to make war on people with whom we wish to be at peace, and who feel the same wish in regard to us; or to receive a salary for devoting one's whole life to constructing these instruments of butchery, or to preparing oneself and others for the work of murder.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Men, Thinking

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• Remember that every man is a variation of yourself

  William Saroyan

  Men, Variation, Remember

  William Saroyan (2009). “The Time of Your Life”, p.3, A&C Black

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• Before this war is over,' [Walter] said - or something said through his lips - 'every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it - you, Mary, will feel it - feel it to your heart's core. You will weep tears of blood over it. The Piper has come - and he will pipe until every corner of the world has heard his awful and irresistible music. It will be years before the dance of death is over - years, Mary. And in those years millions of hearts will break.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Children, War, Heart

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Rilla of Ingleside”, p.35, Booklassic

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• Every man and every woman is a star.

  Aleister Crowley

  Stars, Men, Intriguing

  Aleister Crowley “The Equinox Vol. 3. No. 1.”, Lulu.com

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• But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.

  Aldous Huxley

  Heart, Men, Understanding

  Aldous Huxley (1923). “Antic hay”, New York

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• Every form has its own meaning. Every man creates his meaning and form and goal. Why is it so important - what others have done? Why does it become sacred by the mere fact of not being your own? Why is anyone and everyone right - so long as it's not yourself? Why does the number of those others take the place of truth? Why is truth made a mere matter of arithmetic - and only of addition at that? Why is everything twisted out of all sense to fit everything else? There must be some reason. I don't know. I've never known it. I'd like to understand.

  Ayn Rand

  Truth, Men, Numbers

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.23, Penguin

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• Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Kings, Men, Long

  Sinclair Lewis (2014). “It Can't Happen Here”, p.356, Penguin

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• Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Self, Weakness

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories: The Return of Sherlock Holmes, His Last Bow and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Non-slipcased Edition) (Vol. 2) (The Annotated Books)”, p.1529, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

  Martin Buber

  Unique, Men, Tasks

  Martin Buber (2015). “Hasidism and Modern Man”, p.66, Princeton University Press

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• She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

  E. M. Forster

  Love, Passion, Men

  Howards End (1910) ch. 22 (the title-page also has "Only connect...")

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• Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Snow, Firsts

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• Every human occupation has it repertoire of stock phrases, within which every man twists and turn until his death. His vocabulary, which seems so lavish, reduces itself to a hundred routine formulas at most, which he repeats over and over.

  Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

  Men, Vocabulary, Twists

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• Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Success, Ambition

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.615, Wordsworth Editions

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• What must strike any intelligent witch or wizard on studying the so-called history of the Elder Wand is that every man who claims to have owned it has insisted that it is "unbeatable," when the known facts of its passage through many owners' hands demonstrate that has it not only been beaten hundreds of times, but that it also attracts trouble as Grumble the Grubby Goat attracted flies.

  J. K. Rowling

  Intelligent, Men, Hands

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• Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Men, Way, Standing

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Cities of the Plain”, p.290, Pan Macmillan

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• Everybody allows that to know any other science you must have first studied it, and that you can only claim to express a judgment upon it in virtue of such knowledge. Everybody allows that to make a shoe you must have learned and practised the craft of the shoemaker, though every man has a model in his own foot, and possesses in his hands the natural endowments for the operations required. For philosophy alone, it seems to be imagined, such study, care, and application are not in the least requisite

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Men, Hands

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1904). “The Logic of Hegel”

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• Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

  Mark Twain

  Moon, Men, Want

  Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.206, Univ of California Press

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• It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “Crime and Punishment”, p.14, Vintage

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• Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Men, World, May

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• Even if you slept with every man on Earth, my love will still survive.

  Paulo Coelho

  Men, Earth, Stills

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• Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Time, Philosophical

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• A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God's truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what pleased him alone? Who would plough the fields and reap the harvest, if every man had the right to say, 'I don't want to do that.' In this world there is a place for every man, but every man must know his place.

  Wilbur Smith

  Kings, Men, Boys

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