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Quotes About Man

As long as something is happening it really does not matter if it is of God, of man or of the devil.
~ Rodney Howard-Browne
Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.
~ Ronald Knox
The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.
~ Roy Blount, Jr.
Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man, who doesn't know what he's about to do!
~ Rumi
The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels.
~ Saul Bellow
Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The Absolute is the material of both God and man.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
~ Sydney Smith
It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?
~ Terence Rattigan
What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?
~ Terry Pratchett
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
~ Theodor Adorno
The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.
~ Thomas Browne
I like the Bible folded between lids of cloth, or calfskin, or morocco, but I like it better when, in the shape of a man, it goes out into the world-a Bible illustrated.
~ Thomas De Witt Talmage
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
~ Thomas Love Peacock
Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little he is, despite all his big talk.
~ Thomas Sowell
Once you know about these things, you will also love them, because you will see that without a sense of the sacred, you are less than a man.
~ Thomas Yellowtail
I'm not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be.
~ Tim Curry
I would not educate Donald trump. He is a very educated man.
~ Tommie Smith
There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
~ Walter Reisch
There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
~ William Allen White