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Quotes About Man

He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.
~ Diogenes
No man needs curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.
~ Djuna Barnes
Ken Shamrock is the World's Most Dangerous Man? Maybe behind the wheel of a car.
~ Don Frye
Nelson Mandela and myself had a wonderful relationship - he was a special man and will be missed.
~ Donald Trump
The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument.
~ Douglas Adams
I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.
~ Douglas Wilson
A plastic man really, actually no man at all.
~ Duane Thomas
They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.
~ E. B. White
And still the mad magnificent herald Spring assembles beauty from forgetfulness with the wild trump of April:witchery of sound and odour drives the wingless thing man forth in the bright air.
~ e. e. cummings
An artist, a man, a failure, must proceed.
~ e. e. cummings
The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything.
~ E. F. Schumacher
That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.
~ Edmond de Goncourt
Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.
~ Edmund Burke
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
~ Edmund Spenser
The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity.
~ Edmund Yates
I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
~ Edward Dahlberg
So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility.
~ Edward Gibbon
Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.
~ Edward Kasner
Prayer is God's plan to supply man's great and continuous need with God's great and continuous abundance.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live."
~ Edward Young
Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin