Quotes of: Man-lives Keyword

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

John Dryden

Take all of this Book upon reason that you can, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man.

Abraham Lincoln : Theologian of American Anguish

In the end, every man's life is but a tale told to him that's lived it, and to him alone.

The Religion

We must learn to live with contradictions, to have faith in skepticism, to advance toward the solution of a problem by admitting as a possibility that it may be insoluble.

The Root Is Man

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

A Moveable Feast

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

The New Gods

I hadn't yet come to terms with the man my father was, or the lives he'd destroyed. But I accepted that he was part of me, and that he'd loved me once.

Nearly Gone

He realised that in a town a man cannot live as he wishes, but as other people wish.

The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

For him, the kampung was a place to live and work that was based on a steadfast and intimate relationship between man and nature. The village was a true reflection of life in the tropics.

The Tower

It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.

Walden

Can we have breakfast now? No matter how sweet it is, a man can’t live on pussy alone.

A White Hot Christmas: Novella

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

Jeff Bridges

It seems to me that it's every man's obligation to make what contribution he can. You live each day as best you can. That, to me, is what makes life interesting.

Rod McKuen

With a sense of humor like that, you could make a living as a garbage man anywhere in the country.

Fool Moon

Nothing will bind the eyes of man quicker than the touch of compromise. A principle not compromised is a principle worth dying for. A dream not compromised is a dream worth living for.

Ogwo David Emenike

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

Pablo Neruda

Child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived within him and who he will miss terribly

Pablo Neruda

Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art...I have to try and think what an artist is, apart from a hooligan who cannot live within his income of praise.

Quentin Crisp

If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining.

Richard Dawkins

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am so old-fashioned. I've never lived with a man. I am completely about the independence of paying my own rent.

Suheir Hammad