Quotes About Man

A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

Women are the cradles of life. What sort of man tries to break a cradle (Marc)

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.

Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man's destiny were not equally so?

I see a man's life is a tedious one.

Many times man lives and dies Betweeen his two eternities, That of race and that of soul, And ancient Ireland knew it all. Whether man die in his bed Or the rifle knocks him dead

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.

As a customer's man, his best brokerage work was securing the old age of his clients: time for them to do what they wished.

There was an Old Man with a beard,Who said: "It is just as I feared!Two owls and a hen,Four larks and a wrenHave all built their nests in my beard."

There was an Old Man of Peru, Who watched his wife making a stew; But once by mistake, In a stove she did bake, That unfortunate Man of Peru.

Which distressed that Old Man of Jamaica. nonsense

There was an Old Man of the East, Who gave

The only man who can change his mind is a man that's got one.

What is man? Storyteller, mythmaker, and destroyer of the living world. Thinking

The bare, sweeping chalk downs of southern England, familiar today, are not a natural feature of the landscape: they were created by prehistoric man.

The claim that every man kills the thing he loves seemed to him a wild guess compared with the near certainty of a man turning into the thing he hates.

Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

From now on, how one arrives at a definition of the relationship of man's basic nature to his culturally conditioned control systems (extensions) is of crucial importance. For in our shrinking globe man can ill afford cultural illiteracy.

Anything that erodes the fear of God will intensify the fear of man.

The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

Like every good man, I strive for perfection, and, like every ordinary man, I have found that perfection is out of reach - but not the perfect suit.