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Quotes About Man

Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.
~ Aristotle
If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
A man who took history in his hands, and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice.
~ Barack Obama
The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart that loved him.
~ Benjamin Constant
The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.
~ Benjamin Franklin
No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth
~ Blaise Pascal
My heart/ is whatever temperature a heart is/ in a man who doesn't believe in heaven.
~ Bob Hicok
I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man.
~ Brad Renfro
I'm a law-abiding man. That is, if there's any law to abide by.
~ Burl Ives
When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.
~ C. S. Lewis
During a race, it's like I become a machine and the machine becomes a man. I talk to my cars, baby them, shout at them, praise them.
~ Cale Yarborough
Egoistical opinion that a man is the king of nature was created by the man himself, so he can justify his wrong decisions.
~ Ruben Papian
Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body, Yet no man hath ever seen a soul.
~ Rumi
My father was a very difficult man.
~ Sade Adu
Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.
~ Samuel Adams
... engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling.
~ Samuel Florman
The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.
~ Samuel Smiles
An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind
~ Scott Lynch
A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man's self-sacrifice, nor can there ever be.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Memory is each man's poet-in-residence.
~ Stanley Kunitz
Lord loves a workin' man; don't trust whitey
~ Steve Martin
Why doesn't the fattest man in the world become a hockey goalie?
~ Steven Wright
A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.
~ Tamara Mellon