Quotes About Man

This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.

Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.

Yes, there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer, and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I often think of those lines of old Goethe : 'Schade, daß die Natur nur einen Menschen aus dir schuf; Denn zum würdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff.'

My instincts are all against a woman being too frank and at her ease with me. It is no compliment to a man.

My dear Watson, you were born to be a man of action. Your instinct is always to do something energetic.

When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it. The highest type of man may revert to the animal if he leaves the straight road of destiny.

There's the cab, Hopkins, and you can remove your man. If you want me for the trial, my address and that of Watson will be somewhere in Norway –I'll send particulars later.

life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We

Schade dass die Natur nur einen Mensch aus Dir schuf, Denn zum wuerdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff.

Because it is done by a man who cannot afford to fail, one whose whole unique position depends upon the fact that all he does must succeed. A great brain and a huge organization have been turned to the extinction of one man. It is crushing the nut with the triphammer—an absurd extravagance of energy—but the nut is very effectually crushed all the same.

Oh, bless you, it doesn't matter in the least. If the man is caught, it will be on account of their exertions; if he escapes, it will be in spite of their exertions. It's heads I win and tails you lose. Whatever they do, they will have followers. 'Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.

Pena que a Natureza fizesse de ti um só indivíduo. Porque havia matéria para um homem digno e para um patife.

He was a well-grown, handsome man, with a splendid forehead

Schade dass die Natur nur einen Mensch aus dir schuf, Denn zum wurdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff.

Well, well," said he, at last. "It is, of course, possible that a cunning man might change the tires of his bicycle in order to leave unfamiliar tracks. A criminal who was capable of such a thought is a man whom I should be proud to do business with.

My name. I have a name, and it's not Red Dragon. I am more than just the priestess's dragon. I am Eilrah, a man who wants you," he growled against her lips. "But you aren't a man. You only take this form when you feel like it," she replied coolly, turning her face aside.

Svoboda was not a brilliant man. He was a man of what used to be known as average and is now known as above-average intelligence.

He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he is simply not very interesting.

I have a beard,' Dr. Montague said, pleased, and looked around at them with a happy beam. 'My wife,' he told them, 'likes a man to wear a beard. Many women, on the other hand, find a beard distasteful. A clean-shaven man - you'll excuse me, my boy - never looks fully dressed, my wife tells me.' He held out his glass to Luke.

the houses described in Leviticus as 'leprous,' tsaraas, or Homer's phrase for the underworld: aidao domos, the house of Hades; I need not remind you, I think, that the concept of certain houses as unclean or forbidden—perhaps sacred—is as old as the mind of man.

You know what a clever woman my mother is. "What good," she says to me, "are all his promises of tablecloths and handkerchiefs when he should be sending you cash? The Angel of Death doesn't wait for a man to buy his shrouds…

A man was soft when he was hard and hard when he was soft. So it was only necessary to keep him hard until he gave you what you wanted.

There is a smell to failure. It is a stench that clings like a miasma. Just as dogs can detect the odor of fear in a human being, so people can sense when a man is on his way down.

My definition of a liberal is a man who has his ass firmly stuck in clouds of cotton wool.