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Quotes About Man

For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman.
~ Nick Lampson
Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
I believe it, Chronicler found himself thinking. Before it was just a story, but now I can believe it. This is the face of a man who has killed an angel.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
There is no real wealth but the labour of man.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.
~ Peter Kreeft
I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.
~ Peter Stone
As the government is, such will be the man.
~ Plato
I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.
~ Pope Leo XIII
Lust sullies every age of man, but quite extinguishes old age.
~ Pope Pius II
Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.
~ Pythagoras
The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
~ Oscar Wilde
Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
~ Oscar Wilde
A Christian man is a man who is within himself, who puts out good vibes.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
For every child that is born, it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed with man.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.
~ Rafael Sabatini
I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson