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Quotes About Man

You will never find that life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping.
~ Anonymous
Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.
~ Anonymous
Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in man.
~ Anonymous
For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity.Nevertheless through envy of the devil came death into the world.
~ Anonymous
But how should man be just with God?
~ Anonymous
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?Gird up now thy loins like a man.
~ Anonymous
Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
~ Anonymous
The creator has a master plan,Peace and happiness for every man.
~ Anonymous
No man deserves punishment for his thoughts.
~ Anonymous
So slowly, slowly rase she up,And slowly she came nigh him,And when she drew the curtain by—"Young man, I think you're dyin'."
~ Anonymous: Ballads
The man in the wilderness asked of meHow many strawberries grew in the sea.I answered him as I thought good,"As many as red herrings grow in the wood."
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man,Bake me a cake as fast as you can;Pat it and prick it, and mark it with B,Put it in the oven for baby and me.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile,He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile;He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse,And they all lived together in a little crooked house.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
O do you know the muffin man,The muffin man, the muffin man,O do you know the muffin man,That lives in Drury Lane?
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
Whiskey is the life of man,Whiskey, Johnny!Oh, I'll drink whiskey while I can,Whiskey for my Johnny!
~ Anonymous: Shanties
Oh, blow the man down, bullies, blow the man down!To me way-aye, blow the man down.Oh, blow the man down, bullies, blow him right down!Give me some time to blow the man down!
~ Anonymous: Shanties
There is a curious mental stimulus to a good but stupid woman in a bad man's badness. If she has a touch of the reformer in her, as most good women have, she soon becomes obsessed with the futile desire to save him from himself. And in seven cases out of ten her first step in doing so is to descend to his level. "Not
~ Anthony Berkeley
Trade and gambling and a woman occasionally - that was a mans life.
~ Anthony Burgess
If the Albanian Museum of Atheism followed its Soviet prototype, the exhibits would have traced the ascent of Man from amoebae to Enver Hoxha. We
~ Anthony Daniels
He is a man who understands the power of the German soil, who feels its dark prehistoric vigor thudding in his very cells.
~ Anthony Doerr
The statesman and moralist Cato the Censor defined an orator as "a good man skilled in speech.
~ Anthony Everitt
An eloquent man, my child, an eloquent man, and a patriot.
~ Anthony Everitt
it is not too fanciful to guess that the plan's inventor was the man
~ Anthony Everitt
as we turned the corner and began to walk down the rutted track that led to Staples Inn Gardens. The moment we appeared, the hurdy-gurdy man stopped playing and I recalled that he had behaved in exactly the same way the last time we had come here. It would have been natural for Jones to make straight for the barber's shop – was that not
~ Anthony Horowitz