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A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own. ...
by Thomas Mann

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
- Thomas Mann

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Quotes by Thomas Mann

Thoughts come clearly while one walks.
- Thomas Mann

If you are possessed by an idea,
you will find it expressed everywhere,
you even smell it.
- Thomas Mann

Man Quotes and Sayings

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates

The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain

The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

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

The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain

A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller

Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti

Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain

Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy

What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus

Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau

A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin

A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz

If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha

He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison

Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer

Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50,
and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Do not hire a man who does your work for money,
but him who does it for love of it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx

A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab

A man's interest in a single bluebird
is worth more than a complete but dry list
of the fauna and flora of a town.
- Henry David Thoreau

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli

I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man
is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor

I like a man who grins when he fights.
- Winston Churchill

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde

Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Jung

Until he extends the circle of
his compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer

One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain

Whenever I date a guy, I think,
"Is this the man I want my children
to spend their weekends with?"
- Rita Rudner

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton

Anxiety is love's greatest killer.
It makes one feel as you might
when a drowning man holds unto you.
You want to save him, but you know
he will strangle you with his panic.
- Anais Nin

There are two times when a man doesn't understand a woman -
before marriage and after marriage.
- Anonymous

The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner

A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs

Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
- Raymond Inmon

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius

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