Quotes About Man

He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.

Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

The only rational liberty is that which is born of subjection, reared in the fear of God and the love of man.

Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.

There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valor.

O heaven! were man, But constant, he were perfect.

The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.

Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.

Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man.

I came here as a man of visions. I was sent here as a man of visions, like a second Noah. I'm not a Noah but I'm here as a second Noah. I'm here as a red light is in the street.

We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.

It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry

Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.

The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.

I'm a simple, simple man.

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.