Quotes About Man

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work.

From Adam's wife, that proved a curse Though God had made her for a blessing, All women born are so perverse No man need boast their love possessing.

I love all beauteous things,I seek and adore them;God hath no better praise,And man in his hasty daysIs honored for them.

All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount: Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

Progress, man's distinctive mark alone,Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are;Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

One more devils'-triumph and sorrow for angels,One more wrong to man, one more insult to God!

From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs,That makes her loved at home, revered abroad:Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,"An honest man's the noblest work of God."

The rank is but the guinea's stamp,The man's the gowd for a' that.

The social, friendly, honest man,Whate'er he be,'Tis he fulfills great Nature's plan,And none but he!

When Nature her great masterpiece design'd,And fram'd her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the mazy plan,She form'd of various stuff the various Man.

There's nought but care on ev'ry han',In every hour that passes, O:What signifies the life o' man,An' 't were nae for the lasses, O.

Nature's law,That man was made to mourn.

Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man.

Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods: restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.

We get lost in a fog of abstractions and easily forget that man is a bloodhound sniffing out the real.

Not he but Trotsky had risen to the heights of glory as Lenin's right-hand man in the Revolution and the Civil War.

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.

Goethe epitomizes what was known in the Renaissance as the Ideal of the Universal Man—a person so steeped in all forms of knowledge that his mind grows closer to the reality of nature itself and sees secrets that are invisible to most people.

On the other hand, an attack on another man's reputation is a potent weapon, particularly when you have less power than he does.

ma a Roma un uomo onesto era un uomo raro: cioè un cretino.

He felt more human with his boots on. A man can face the world with something on his feet.