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Quotes About Man

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
~ Peter Stone
I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a CONGRESS!
~ Peter Stone
As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the ocean: "Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealor revelator. Look at it rising up and rising down, taking everything with it." "What's that," I asked. "Water," the Dutchman said. "Well, and time.
~ Peter Van Houten
the Renaissance can be seen as the rediscovery of the individual, as superseding the medieval religious view of man as a corrupt, sinful and helpless creature.
~ Peter Whitfield
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
~ Petrarch
The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.
~ Phil Ochs
The door of the judge's house was opened to him by a huge, bearded man who informed the reporter in a conversational tone that if he did not leave the village immediately he would not leave it with his arms unbroken.
~ Phil Rickman
As a rule he had found it useful as well as prudent to trust his fellow man to do the right thing only when the wrong thing failed to present itself.
~ Philip Caputo
This man is dangerous,' said Lloyd George. 'He doesn't want anything.
~ Philip Hoare
Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.
~ Philip James Bailey
The fortune of the man who sits also sits
~ Philip José Farmer
any man is just made up of some deportment and behaviour that have met with the silent approval of a very small number of women.
~ Philip Kerr (author)
The U.S. Constitution is considered by Americans to embody the principles of a higher law, to constitute "in fact imperfect man's most perfect rendering of what Blackstone saluted as 'the eternal immutable laws of good and evil, to which the
~ Philip Norton
Sartre intends to convey the view that man first exists without purpose or definition, finds himself in the world and only then, as a reaction to experience, defines the meaning of his life. It
~ Philip Stokes
A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.
~ Philippa Gregory
Je suis l'égout, Brodeck. Je ne suis pas le prêtre, je suis l'homme-égout.
~ Philippe Claudel
Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
~ Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
~ Phyllis McGinley
This is before the coming of a new Heaven and a new Earth, in the which shall reign the Prince of Peace forever and forever, as the Old shall be passed away, for lo on earth there is nothing great but man in man there is nothing great but mind. . . . .
~ Phylos the Tibetan
The true science and study of man is man.
~ Pierre Charron
Siempre he venerado, del catolicismo, su sistema de pensamiento completo, que se enfrenta a todas las dificultades íntimas del hombre y les da una exquisita e irremplazable solución
~ Pierre Drieu la Rochelle
I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
~ Alexander Henry
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?
~ J. C. Ryle
Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-and-bone man ever called at their houses. The truth of the matter was that in less than a week I was well dressed from head to foot, all of these things being voluntary offerings, when in quest of eatables.
~ W. H. Davies