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Quotes About Man

I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
~ Clarence Darrow
The Path is not far from man. When men try to pursue a course, which is far from the common indications of consciousness, this course cannot be considered The Path.
~ Confucius
I used to love going fishing. I think it was really about the clothes. Nothing says real man like a vest with 38 pockets and a mesh hat with hooks in it.
~ Craig Ferguson
Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often.
~ Craig Ferguson
The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.
~ Cyril Connolly
The love between man and woman is the greatest and most complete passion the world will ever see, because it is dual, because it is of two opposing kinds.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman-- it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused.
~ Daniel Handler
Garion started shaving. "Try to keep away from your nose," said Hettar wryly. "A man looks quite strange without a nose.
~ David Eddings
The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.
~ David Hilbert
The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.
~ Democritus
Old ideas from an old man about an old vision of Europe.
~ Denis MacShane
how peaceful a bedroom is without a man in it.
~ Dorothy Eden
The Rock is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most electrifying man in sports entertainment today.
~ Dwayne Johnson
suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
~ e. e. cummings
Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.
~ Edward Thorndike
Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?
~ Edward Young
As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
~ Edward Young
The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize his own cessation.
~ Edwin S. Shneidman
A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition.
~ Eleanor Catton
There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.
~ Eleanor Porter
Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
~ Elizabeth I