Quotes on One Man

One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. ---The Thousandth Man

Life is not a game of Solitaire; people depend on one another. When one does well, others are lifted. When one stumbles, others also are impacted. There are no one-man teams—either by definition or natural law. Success is a cooperative effort; it’s dependent upon those who stand beside you.

The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?

Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?

Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish...It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.

For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.

Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.

It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.

Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man to walk brutally over the life of another and to be quite oblivious of the wounds he has left behind.

One man with courage is a majority.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtuous.

It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.

...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.

One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!

And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in?

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.