Quotes About Man

City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.

Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.

Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

A man must study general conditions, to seize them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities.

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.

A bachelor is only half a man

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

The soul is not more important than the body. God made the whole man and the whole man is important.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.

I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

I am not going to become crazy in the ring, because I am already crazy. And I am not going to die in the ring. I am going to die in bed as an old man.

I remembered something. There's a man. He is bald and wears a short sleeve shirt. And somehow, he is important to me... I think his name is... Homer.

sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.

God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.

There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows.

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.