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Quotes About Man

Pray, do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
~ William Shakespeare
And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That makes ingrateful man!
~ William Shakespeare
The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.
~ William Stanley Jevons
God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.
~ William Wilberforce
The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.
~ William Wordsworth
The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.
~ William Wordsworth
The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.
~ William Wordsworth
I'm a big man and I like big dogs.... The dogs kept growing until only one of us could get in the elevator. It caused enough hassles so they finally kicked me out of my apartment.
~ Wilt Chamberlain
Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering
~ Zora Neale Hurston
They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's.
~ A. E. Housman
Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
I love that magazine, man - Victoria's Secret - and it comes, like, every three hours.
~ Adam Ferrara
Salvation is not a plan; it's a Man.
~ Adrian Rogers
No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
~ Agnes Smedley
I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.
~ Alan Shepard
Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.
~ Albert Camus
Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan
~ Aleister Crowley
Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
~ Alexander Pope
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know
~ Alexis Carrel
Except for the woman, nothing interests the eye of the American man more than the automobile, or seems so important to him as an object of esthetic appreciation.
~ Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man.
~ Andrew Garfield
I think my wife has always been aware, whatever country we have been in, of my dramatic leading man status; a little too dramatic she would probably say.
~ Andrew Lincoln
If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.
~ Aristotle