30,129 Quotes About Men

Musicians in my day had nicknames. My name was "Satchel Mouth," like a doctor's satchel. When I went to England this fellow was strictly English, and he was editor of the newspaper there. He shook my hand after I got off the train and said, "Hello, Satchmo." So right away my trombone player said, "Mmm, the man thinks you have mo' mouth than Satchel Mouth." So I was stuck with it, and it turned out all right.

My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.

For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all their lives for the help given to both hearts and souls.

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

A man can dignify his rank; no rank Can dignify a man.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

For rarely man escapes his destiny.

Man proposes, and God disposes.