Quotes About Man

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos--to the unknown--which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination.

John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.

It is through generous giving, that we affirm before the world, our nation's faith in the inalienable right of every man, to a life of freedom, justice and security.

Man is more than half of nature's treasure.

The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark Of the unfathomed center.

I know a man in Ft. Worth with 100,000 head of cattle. No bodies, just heads.

Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.

The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas.

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.

A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?

When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.

Indolence is heaven 's ally here, And energy the child of hell : The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well.

Man is by nature a curious animal. You can hide the truth from him temporarily, but not for ever.

I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.

While the cowboy is our favorite American hero - the quintessential man - most of us see the cowgirl as a child who will grow up someday and be something else.

Then you're a bigger fool than I thought. Since when has any man ever been worthy of the woman he loved? It's only by God's grace that they love us in spite of ourselves.

Why is it that a man with hair on his head has more hair than a man with hairs on his head?