Man proverbs

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◆ I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky99

◆ Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ Man is the cruelest animal.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

- George Orwell99

◆ Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

- Voltaire99

◆ Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

- Khaled Hosseini99

◆ I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

- Simone de Beauvoir99

◆ You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.

- Paul McCartney99

◆ The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

- Mark Twain99

◆ When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.

- Anthony Burgess99

◆ A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

- Andy Rooney99

◆ And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

- Milan Kundera99

◆ Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky98