Quotes About Man

I remember my father telling me the story of the preacher delivering an exhortation to his flock, and as he reached the climax of his exhortation, a man in the front row got up and said, 'O Lord, use me. Use me, O Lord - in an advisory capacity!'

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making his life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see - it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life.

Architecture is space structured to serve man and to move him.

One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.

Chance usually favors the prudent man.

A Torontonian is a man who leaves culture to his wife.

As time requireth, a man of marvellous mirth and past times, and sometimes of as sad gravity, as who say: a man for all seasons.

Let us humour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.

We are all afraid - for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. The personal commitment and the emotional commitment working together as one, has made the Ascent of Man.

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman!

Shame arises from the fear of man; conscience from the fear of God.

The soft whispers of the God in man.

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

In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

The town is man's world, but this (country life) is of God.

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity, for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.

There was an old man who said, "How Shall I flee from this horrible cow? I will sit on this stile, and continue to smile, Which may soften the heart of that cow."

God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality ....

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that, to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.