Quotes About Man

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

If the Constitution says that marriage is between a man and woman, then things that are inconsistent with that would be inconsistent with the Constitution.

I think most actors are shy. I really do. The greatest actors can disappear. I had friends call me the Blend-In Man.

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

A woman was taking a shower. There is a knock on the door. Who is it? Blind man! The woman opens the door. Where do you want these blinds, lady?

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.

What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.

The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it.

The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.

Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended.

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.

Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?

I am a road man for the lords of karma.

As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.

And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God.

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.

The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.

The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant.

There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.

Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below.