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Quotes About Man

The rifle is the queen of weapons and its effective use is one of the greatest satisfactions available to man.
~ Jeff Cooper
Only God truly forgives, man sometimes forgives, nature never forgives.
~ Jerome Lejeune
That's a wise substitution by Terry Venables: three fresh man, three fresh legs.
~ Jimmy Hill
In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle.
~ John Crowe Ransom
God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.
~ John Donne
See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.
~ John Webster
A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.
~ Larry McMurtry
Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history.
~ Len Deighton
An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.
~ Mark Driscoll
If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod.
~ Mark Kurlansky
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
~ Martial
Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man,is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past.
~ Mary McCarthy
The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.
~ Matthew Henry
The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man.
~ Naum Gabo
Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.
~ Patrick Ness
Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.
~ Paul Valery
Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.
~ Plato
As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity."
~ Plutarch
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
~ Quintilian
Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
~ Ouida