Quotes About Man

In England I would rather be a man, a horse, a dog or a woman, in that order. In America I think the order would be reversed.

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress, if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got.

As in political, so in literary action, a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices.

The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

The test of any man lies in action.

Fear that man who fears not God.

The glory of God is in man fully alive.

Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creatures, let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself.

Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis "good works" make the man.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

I know that thete are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature when they are only repelled by Man.

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

Man is a reasoning, rather than a reasonable animal.

To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What Man has made of Man.