Quotes on Another Man

I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.

Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?

Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to fight.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals. And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals, they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to the nature of their acts.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

I think everyone makes a mistake at least once in their life. The important thing is what you learn from it. That's why I have problems with our Pashtunwali code. We are supposed to take revenge for wrongs done to us, but where does that end? If a man in one family is killed or hurt by another man, revenge must be exacted to restore nang (honor).

I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.