Quotes About Man

it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.

My soul is possessed by this devil my new name is Rain Man.

The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.

A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.

Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not only does right, but loves to do right.

Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

I knew I shouldn't have given @50cent pitching advice...sorry man

If you're a man in your twenties or thirties, and you have yet to make your fortune, I would urge you not to get married.

The doctrine that man is infinitely tough and resourceful and not easily cheated of his freedom to sin.

There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.

Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to.

a man who hates music can't be trusted, I always say.

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.

Thinking man's crumpet? Well, it's more flattering than being a lobotomised man's crumpet, I suppose.

For a good man fame is always a problem.

There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl.

Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.

Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning.

Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene - the Age of Man.

There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.