Quotes About Man

'Tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

But man, proud man,Drest in a little brief authority,Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd,His glassy essence, like an angry ape,Plays such fantastic tricks before high heavenAs make the angels weep.

He is the half part of a blessed man,Left to be finished by such a she;And she a fair divided excellence,Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

I am a very foolish fond old man,Fourscore and upward, not an hour more or less;And, to deal plainly,I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in, the wit is out.

An old man, broken with the storms of state,Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;Give him a little earth for charity.

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

Benedick the married man.

And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither.

All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the lanthorn is the moon; I, the man in the moon; this thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog.

I could have better spar'd a better man.

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

The man was disconcerting and, when I spoke again, it annoyed me to hear that my tone sounded apologetic.

All of us are too much concerned with this life," she remarked; she spoke as if what she were saying was an obvious fact instead of a philosophic platitude. "It is time that a man like Julian

We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated and priestlike in their laboratories. This is not true. The materials of science are the materials of life itself. Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience. It is impossible to understand man without understanding his environment and the forces that have molded him physically and mentally.

Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.

There is no structural organization of society which can bring about the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth, since all systems can be perverted by the selfishness of man.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

to lift a man by education from one social stratum to another is to expose him to a terrible temptation—the temptation to despise his own people.