Every Man Quotes

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
Henry David Thoreau

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George Washington

True, Words, Friends

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Creative, Happens, Cause

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Ayn Rand

Power, Choice, Choose

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
Plato

Good, May, Another

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
Marcus Aurelius

Men, Others, Often

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw

Forty, Scoundrel

Every Man Quote

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
John Donne

Piece, Island, Continent

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

Age, After, Face

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
Theodore Roosevelt

Work, End, Remember

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.
Sydney Madwed

Life, Someone, Blame

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
Mae West

Wants, Meet, Protect

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, Social, Needs

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Life, Greatest, Nothing

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

Men, Past, Blessings

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
Mae West

Woman, Give, Ring

It is right to give every man his due.
Plato

The great object is that every man be armed.
Patrick Henry

Great, Object, Armed

All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
Epictetus

Heaven, Religions, Tolerated

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
Thomas A. Edison

Impossible, Become, Place

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
H. L. Mencken

Himself, Relatives, Series

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Somewhere, Sane, Spot

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
John D. Rockefeller

Living, Whether, Hand

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
William James

Year, Holiday, Himself

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
H. L. Mencken

Good, Men, Wise

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Henry Ward Beecher

Friends, Keep, Faults

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
Henry Ward Beecher

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
Aldous Huxley

Life, Power, Read

Every man is his own hell.
H. L. Mencken

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Vision, Takes, Limits

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