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Quotes About Man

There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.
~ Edward Lear
No! No! Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: Death does not exist.'
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
Every man got a right to his own mistakes. Ain't no man that ain't made any.
~ Joe Louis
The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.
~ Homer
Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
~ John Eldredge, Wild At Heart
Fools wait for a lucky day, but everyday is a lucky day for an industrious man.
~ Gautama Buddha
They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.
~ Mos Def
Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.
~ Hafez
God never alters the robe of righteousness to fit the man. Rather He alters the man to fit the robe.
~ John Hagee
There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.
~ Richard Brautigan
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
~ Oscar Wilde
Love is the law of God. You live that you may learn to love. You love that you may learn to live. No other lesson is required of Man.
~ Mikhail Naimy
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me.
~ Saint Patrick
Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a Gentleman is a matter of choice.
~ Vin Diesel
Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
~ Aldous Huxley
In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
~ David Bowie
The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
~ Che Guevara
Since man's natural instincts lead him to sin, all men are sinners; and all sinners go to hell. If everyone goes to hell, then you will meet all your friends there.
~ Anton Szandor LaVey
Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.
~ Helen Rowland