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Quotes About Man

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I really believe that to have a full impression of Jesus, both as Christ as a man, you must know about the world that gave shape to him - the world out of which he arose.
~ Reza Aslan
In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties. All the senses should be awake.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
~ A. P. Herbert
Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm
~ Abraham Lincoln
An Eskimo shaman said, Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls.
~ Annie Dillard
Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.
~ Blaise Pascal
For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
~ Boethius
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
~ Brian Aldiss
Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall.
~ Cat Stevens
The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.
~ Lucinda Williams
We have tried to fit man into abstraction, but he does not fit.
~ Mark Tobey
I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.
~ Martin Luther
A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin.
~ Maureen McCormick
The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature.
~ Michael O'Donoghue
Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.
~ Paul Ricoeur
Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
~ Pope Leo XIII
The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.
~ Omar Bongo
Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.
~ Otto von Bismarck
Son, a man'd brand Is his own special mark That says this is mine, leave it alone. You hire out to a man, Ride for his brand And protect it like it was your own.
~ Red Steagall
In a Cafe" I watched a man in a cafe fold a slice of bread as if he were folding a birth certificate or looking at the photograph of a dead lover.
~ Richard Brautigan
According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.
~ Robert Fripp
Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?
~ Robert Frost