Quotes About Man

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

Tinsel in February, tinsel in August. There are things in a man besides his reason.

The resources of this earth are inexhaustible, because God made man's mind inexhaustible.

Ben was a very simple straightforward man with a brilliant quick mind.

I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.

Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.

The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down; and the armed battalions of God march over him.

I think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.

Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.

No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

Every true man's apparel fits your thief.

The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.