All men by nature desire knowledge. Aristotle, On Man in the Universe
The proper study of mankind is books. Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow, 1921
The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist! Auguste Rodin
You are the man. David and Bathsheba 1951 starring Gregory Peck & Susan Hayward & James Robinson Justice & Jayne Meadows & Raymond Massey & Kieron Moore et al, director Henry King, Nathan to David
Be a man. That’s all. Big John, president Florida Warlocks
What a place! A fucking palace. In he came. There he was. In those hand-made Italian leather shoes. Silk socks. The suit. Do me a favour. The man was class. A class act. Style. Fucking impeccable. What a man. Gangster No.1 ***** 1990 staring Paul Bettany & Malcolm McDowell & David Thewlis & Saffron Burrows & Kenneth Cranham & Jamie Foreman & Eddie Marsan et al, director Paul McGuigan
Man the fuck up. Training Day 2001 starring Denzel Washington & Ethan Hawke & Scott Glenn & Tom Berenger & Harris Yulin & Raymond Barry & Cliff Curtis & Dr Dre & Snoop Dogg & Macy Gray & Charlotte Ayanna & Eva Mendes et al, director Antoine Fuqua, Washington to Hawke
We men are wretched things. Troy 2004 starring Brad Pitt & Eric Bana & Orlando Bloom & Rose Byrne & Peter O'Toole & Diane Kruger & Brian Cox & Sean Bean & Julie Christie & Saffron Burrows et al, director Wolfgang Petersen, Achilles to Patroclus
You get it together, you cunt. You hear me, eh? ... Show some fucking backbone. You’re a man. 44 Inch Chest starring Ray Winstone & Ian McShane & John Hurt & Tom Wilkinson & Stephen Dillane & Joanne Whalley & Melvil Poupaud & Edna Dore et al, director Malcolm Venville, Peanut to Colin
The man who sounds well does well; the man who looks well does better. Larceny Inc 1942 starring Edward G Robinson & Jane Wyman & Broderick Crawford & Jack Carson & Anthony Quinn & Edward Brophy & Harry Davenport & John Qualen & Barbara Jo Allen et al, Robinson
If man is made in God’s image, then God is deeply messed up. Syriana 2005 starring George Clooney & Matt Damon & Jeffrey Wright & William Hurt & Christopher Plummer & Amr Waked & Amanda Peet & Chris Cooper & Tim Blake Nelson & Mark Strong et al, director Stephen Gaghan, native bloke
I find men very attractive. Farewell, My Lovely aka Murder, My Sweet 1944 starring Dick Powell & Claire Trevor & Anne Shirley & Otto Kruger & Miles Mander & Mike Mazurki & Douglas Walton & Ralf Harolde & Esther Howard & Ernie Adams et al, director Edward Dmytryk, blonde to Marlowe
Most men live lives of quiet desperation. The Lost Weekend 1945 starring Ray Milland & Jane Wyman & Phillip Terry & Howard Da Silva & Doris Dowling & Frank Faylen & Mary Young & Anita Sharp-Bolster & Lilian Fontaine et al, director Billy Wilder, Don to Helen
Men are born children and they stay children. The Krays 1990 starring Martin Kemp & Gary Kemp & Billie Whitelaw & Tom Bell & Steven Berkoff & Susan Fleetwood & Charlotte Cornwell & Kate Hardie & Avis Bunnage & Alfred Lynch & Gary Love & Jimmy Jewel et al, director Peter Medak, Rose
There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man’s heart and soul, the man’s worth and actions, determine his standing. Theodore Roosevelt, letter 1st September 1903
Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent. John F Kennedy
‘But he’s still a man. And a male like to feel that he thinks up all the Alan Yentob, The United States of Television III: America in Primetime: The Independent Woman, ‘Father Knows Best’ wife to daughter, BBC 2013
Lady Macbeth raised the question of what a man is. Professor Marjorie Garber
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ’Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. Thomas Paine
Men are creatures with two legs and eight hands. Jayne Mansfield
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breathe of life: and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7
It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make an help meet for him. Genesis 2:18
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam; and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman. Genesis 2:21
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Genesis 2:24
And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. Genesis 6:6
For the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Genesis 8:21
For in the image of God made he man. Genesis 9:6
And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. Exodus 3:2-4
Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the Lord made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. Leviticus 21:17-21.
Quit yourselves like men, and fight. I Samuel 4:9
A man after his own heart. I Samuel 13:14
Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker? Job 4:17
Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. Job 5:7
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? Are not his days also like the days of an hireling? Job 7:1
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. Job 14:1
How then can man be justified with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
How much less man, that is a worm? And the son of man, which is a worm? Job 25:4-6
Great men are not always wise. Job 32:9
It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. Psalms 118:8