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Quotes About Man

In Milwaukee last month a man died laughing over one of his own jokes. That's what makes it so tough for us outsiders. We have to fight home competition.
~ Robert Benchley
A man's home is his wife's castle.
~ Alexander Chase
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
~ Benjamin Franklin
When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.
~ William Shenstone
It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.
~ Matthew Henry
He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
~ Pliny the Elder
[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.
~ Aristotle
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
~ Victor Hugo
I didn't say you weren't, but moving on the hope that some man will hire you seems a bit risky.''No more so than diggin' in the dirt for your dreams—only to find it's your grave you've been diggin'.
~ Judith Pella
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
~ T.S. Eliot
We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Probably no invention came more easily to man than Heaven.
~ Georg Cristoph Lichtenberg
Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.
~ Victor Hugo
Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
~ Mark Twain
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.
~ James Thurber
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
~ Oscar Wilde
If a man prepares dinner for you and the salad contains three or more types of lettuce, he is serious.
~ Rita Rudner
Hang onto your sense of humor. I picture my obituary : The sexiest man alive is now dead.
~ Mark Harmon
Courting is an activity where a man and a woman flaunt their virtues. Dating is an activity where life exposes the other's vices.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
With a sense of humor like that, you could make a living as a garbage man anywhere in the country.
~ Jim Butcher, Fool Moon
You can't have it both ways. Either I'm Irish and can talk, or I'm a man and I can't.
~ Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad
The moment was surreal. A sometimes-autistic young man with two identities lecturing a room full of zombies on feelings and realities.
~ Jonathan Friesen, Both of Me