Quotes About Man

Where's the man could ease the heart Like a satin gown?

The man is either mad or he is making verses.

Praise the wise man behind his back, but a woman to her face.

And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs.

While you're saving your face you're losing your ass. Never trust a man whose eyes are too close to his nose. I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket. Better inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps for gladness.

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

God Himself is not secure, having given man dominion over His works.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

What pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies ... the real man.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

Every man as he loveth, quoth the good man when he kissed the cow.

Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.

People are afraid of the future, of the unknown. If a man faces up to it, and takes the dare of the future, he can have some control over his destiny. That's an exciting idea to me, better than waiting with everybody else to see what's going to happen.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore.

Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

Man is both determined and self-determining.

A word has its use, Or, like a man, it will soon have a grave.