Quotes About Man

God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Honesty rare as a man without self-pity, Kindness as large and plain as a prairie wind.

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well being of mankind.

Man is a tool-using animal.

The first man is of the earth, earthy.

Make ye no truce with Adam-zad - the Bear that walks like a man.

His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, This was a man!

He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get in accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his contact in the world.

Imprisoned in every fat man, a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.

There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.

A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: the way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long stroke of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

If a man bites a dog, that is news.

The night cometh when no man can work.

The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart.

A man cannot dress, without his ideas get clothed at the same time.