Quotes About Man

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I am on the side of the angels.

My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.

The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart that loved him.

No enemy is so terrible as a man of genius.

He is a self-made man, very much in love with his creator.

To know the Truth, to love the Truth, and to live the Truth is the whole duty of man.

God works wonders now and then Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he forms a good plan, and then makes the execution of that plan his sole study and business.

Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day. Thus, if you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.

God works wonders now & then; Behold! a Lawyer, an honest Man!

But that the most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.

vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful, the nature of man alone considered; that it was, therefore, every one's interest to be virtuous who wished to be happy even in this world;

Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.

Man is the knower in the same language in which God is creator. God created him in his image, he created the knower in the image of the creator.

Society was not a "social pyramid" with the proportion of rich to poor sloping gently from one class to the next. Instead, it was more of a "social arrow"- very fat at the bottom where the mass of men live, and very thing at the top where sit the wealthy elite. Nor was this effect by chance; the data did not remotely fit a bell curve, as one would expect if wealth were distributed randomly. It is a social law, he wrote: something "in the nature of man.

Modern man is in crisis. He has degenerated from the redoubtable pillar he became through centuries of refinement and slipped resignedly into the popular depiction of himself as a witless under-achiever, incapable of looking after himself or those around him.

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

If man is only a little lower than the angels, the angels should reform.

All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I'm concerned, that part is Greg's for life. I've had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I've always refused.

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

Rex Harrison could be a rather mean-spirited man, and he wasn't regarded very warmly by those who knew him.