Quotes About Man

Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.

Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.

People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man.

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.

We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

Religion is man's attempt to reach God and Christianity is God's attempt to reach man.

A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.

Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.

A sketch of a man facing to the right.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.