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Quotes About Man

einst ein braver Mann namens Gottfried Nickleby, der sich ziemlich spät noch in den Kopf gesetzt hatte zu heiraten. Da er aber weder jung noch begütert war und daher nicht auf die Hand einer vermögenden Dame rechnen durfte, so verehelichte
~ Charles Dickens
The kind of submission or resignation that he he showed, was that of a man who was tired out. I sometimes derived an impression, from his manner or from a widespread word or two which escaped him, that he pondered over the question whether he might have been a better man under better circumstances but he never justified himself by a hint tending that way or tried to bend the past out of its eternal shape.
~ Charles Dickens
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~ Charles Dickens
so cold a man, that his head, instead of being grey, seemed to be sprinkled with hoar-frost. Immense
~ Charles Dickens
There are very few moments in a man's existence, when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.
~ Charles Dickens
This one thing I say, if Alphenus was an influential man because of his party zeal, Naevius was most influential;
~ Charles Duke Yonge
Ignorant as regards the unity of man with himself, the world is still more ignorant in respect to the two other unities - unity of man with God and the universe.
~ Charles Fourier
In many things I defer more to the authority of my grandfather whose political sagacity appears to have been the most striking characteristic of his life. He saw no cessation of war, still less much perfectibility while man is constituted as he has been known to be since the world began. And I think with him.
~ CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
The growth of Sentiment is the increase of suffering; man is never entirely miserable until he finds out how wronged he is and fancies that he sees far ahead a possible freedom.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland
Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.
~ Chinese proverb
The chill of some vague fear was upon him.
~ Bram Stoker, The Man, 1905
But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.
~ George Eliot, Adam Bede
And poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
~ James Branch Cabell
The man who never has been known to pun Will groan to point out he's a judge of one.
~ Evan Esar
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. It is human, it is divine, carrion. If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life...
~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden
On the sixth day God created man. On the seventh day, man returned the favor.
~ Author Unknown
And when the demons came out of the past, they went into man…
~ Gospodinov Georgi
It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving," he explained, "and every man may take comfort from the fine saying that the search for truth is more precious than its possession."70
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Religion is the solid basis of good morals therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
~ Gouverneur Morris
I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It's the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women fully appreciate.
~ Graham Greene
A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.
~ Graham Greene
Peter was a gentle, red-haired bear of a man. Standing at six-four in his socks, he moved everywhere with a slight and nautical sway, but even though he was broad across the chest there was something centered and reassuring about him, like an old ship's mast cut from a single timber.
~ Graham Joyce
It true, Bigfoot career been in hole lately. Bigfoot mania of the '70's and '80's but distant memory. I famous for ability to not be see but don't think I not notice you not notice. I blame music television and internet. People too lazy and stupid to appreciate conceptual artist like Bigfoot who appeal is absence.
~ Graham Roumieu
When revealed theology is reduced to an autonomous study of man, when biblical authority is replaced by an unstable human wisdom, when behavior is directed by the descriptions of social science instead of the prescriptions of God's Word, then we have returned to the situation prevailing at the time of the Book of Judges: every man will do what is right in his own eyes.
~ Greg Bahnsen