Quotes About Man

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.

Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.

Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself.

The final story, the final chapter of Western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.

I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.

Fulfillment in life is loving a good woman and killing a bad man.

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

I don't expect to retire. Every man must work, that's his natural destiny.

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

It's your one last chance," said Harry, "it's all you've got left. . . .I've seen what you'll be otherwise. . . . Be a man . . . try . . . Try for some remorse. . . .

for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

All money represents theft… To steal from the rich is a sacred and religious act. While looting, a man to his own self is true.

If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.

LIFE + DESIRE = MAN; LIFE - DESIRE = GOD.

The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.

The natural man cannot but resist the Lord's offering to help him; yet that resistance is infallibly overcome in the elect, by converting grace.

Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.