Quotes About Man

What is the world coming to, with these modern women? A man can't tell them what to do.

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist.

Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.

I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.

Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.

It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.

In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others.

A man can be a parent without knowing it: a woman cannot.

My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.

You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.

There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.

Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.

No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts.

No man can teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ under the inspiration of the living God and with power from on high unless he is living it.

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused.

Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.

The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

Once I establish credit, I may be able to function. A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money.