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Quotes About Man

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.
~ Alice Childress
Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.
~ Amish Tripathi
I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.
~ Amy Grant
I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.
~ Anne Truitt
... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.
~ Aristotle
What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
~ Ayn Rand
Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.
~ C. S. Lewis
It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail
~ Carl Jung
Man, I'm not trying to be important; I just go out and play.
~ Carmelo Anthony
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
~ Charles Dickens
It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
~ Charles Kettering
Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.
~ Charley Reese
Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.
~ Christopher Hitchens
The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.
~ Christopher Morley
An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
~ Constance Rourke
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Allah gave the Qur'an to a very special man, who passed it on to us, for the rest of all our days.
~ Dawud Wharnsby Ali
Man is a universe in little [Microcosm].
~ Democritus
I am a rational man, but haven't you heard? i'm also insane. It gives me a unique perspective on things.
~ Derek Landy
When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.
~ Donald E. Westlake
The Law can only chase a man to Calvary, no further.
~ Dwight L. Moody
This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.
~ Edward Thorndike