Quotes About Man

Now I, an under-tenant of the earth, can see That the branches of a tree Spread no wider than its roots. And how shall the soul of a man Be larger than the life he has lived?

Clothes therefore, must be truly a badge of greatness; the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things.

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.

My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.

A bold bad man.

Ay me, how many perils do enfoldThe righteous man, to make him daily fall.

It is given to very few women to know the beauty of a man's real friendship.

There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.

It is impossible for me to be an Anarchist, for I do not believe in the essential goodness of man. The world, the physical world, that was once all in all to me, has at moments such as these no road through a wood, no stretch of shore, that can bring me comfort. The beauty of these things can no longer at such moments make up to me at all for the ugliness of man, his cruelty, his greed, his lying face.

Lie down beside these waters That bubble from the spring; Hear in the desert silence The desert sparrow sing; Draw from the shapeless moment Such pattern as you can; And cleave henceforth to Beauty; Expect no more from man. Man, with his ready answer, His sad and hearty word, For every cause in limbo, For every debt deferred, For every pledge forgotten, His eloquent and grim Deep empty gaze upon you,— Expect no more from him.

We went too far when we put on the fur of lynxes, Of weasels trapped in winter when they've lost their tan; We went too far when we let the fox assist us To warm the hide that houses the soul of Man. The reek of the leopard and the stink of the inky cat Striped handsomely with white, are in the concert hall; We sleekly writhe from under them, and are above all that; But, the concert over, back into our pelts we crawl.

There is this to be said for walking: It's the one mode of human locomotion by which a man proceeds on his own two feet, upright, erect, as a man should be, not squatting on his rear haunches like a frog.

Walking is the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect - like a man - on his own legs, under his own power. There is immense satisfaction in that.

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

As to the charge that I am a cranky old man, I plead guilty.

With this humble instrumentality did it please Providence to prepare the theatre for those events by which a new dispensation of liberty was to be communicated to man.

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.

You can trust your car to the man who wears the star.

[In response to a priest asking a man on his deathbed that he renounce Satan:] Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies.

But if you love him you'll forgive himEven though he's hard to understand.And if you love him, oh be proud of him'Cause after all he's just a man.

I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium.