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Quotes About Man

But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the mind of man.
~ Virginia Woolf
It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.
~ Wallace Stevens
Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.
~ Winston Churchill
The American is said to become full-flavored, and in time a most all-round man, through the polish which Europe can impart.
~ M. E. W. Sherwood
You can't change a man, no-ways. By the time his mummy turns him loose and he takes up with some innocent woman and marries her, he's what he is.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Questions for questions. You're a man who's spent time at court.
~ Mark Lawrence
A child, then a man, now a feather / Passing through a furious fire / Called time.
~ Mary Jo Bang
Vulnerability, like he had the power to hurt her or pleasure her in a way no other man could. For the first time, he was uncomfortable with the idea of having complete power over her
~ Maya Banks
The Moon shows us only one side of its face and there is no man on Earth who can succeed this! Every man's other face has its time to be seen!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
What a miserable creature man is that he prays in fear to the skies and begs help from the unknown every time he falls down to the ground!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I dont know why everybody is giving Prince Harry a hard time. Hes like every other red-blooded American man - he wants to get drunk and go out with hookers.
~ Nathan Lane
Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
~ Mark Twain
The average man don't like trouble and danger.
~ Mark Twain
There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
~ Mark Twain
The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.
~ Mark Twain
I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.
~ Mark Twain
You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.
~ Mark Twain
Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater.
~ Mark Twain
No narrative that tells the facts of a man's life in the man's own words can be uninteresting.
~ Mark Twain
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
~ Mark Twain
Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for his . His was a great and beautiful spirit, he was a man – all man, from his crown to his footsoles. My reverence for him was deep and genuine.
~ Mark Twain
Man is the reasoning animal. Such is the claim.
~ Mark Twain
Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight
~ Mark Twain
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.
~ Mark Twain