Quotes About Man

we must not give way to a lust for plunder until the enemy is completely scattered. The man who's too quick to plunder is no longer a man. He turns himself into a beast of burden and ought to be treated like a traitor.

Seeing his somber face light up, I shouted, "Come now, we're very wrong to corrupt such a man, forcing him to join us in the misery of laughter!"   Toil

I, Suethes, on the other hand, consider that there are no nobler and more brilliant possessions that a man, and particularly a man who holds power, can have than honour and fair dealing and generosity. A man who has these is rich in the possession of many friends and rich in the fact that many others want to become friends of his.

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?

The truth is that there can be no proper training that does not educate the whole system of the man.

Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

And of all man's felicities The very subtlest one, say I, Is when for the first time he sees His hearthfire smoke against the sky.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end. - Saphira

The Old Testament is the record of a nation; the New Testament is the record of a man, and that's what the Bible is really all about!

The history of the Bible can be viewed as a Tale of Two Cities: Babylon as the City of Man; Jerusalem as the City of God. Both of them have their beginnings in Genesis and both of them are prominent in the climax of the book of Revelation. They represent ideas, not just locales.

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I don't approve of all this tampering with Weirstones," Millie said. "Swapping them from person to person, creating designer Weir, and all that. You never know what you're going to get. Though I must say, that Jack Swift is a very well-endowed young man. I wonder, though, if he'll be able to reproduce.

And a hopeless, angry man is astoundingly predictable.

Without illusions. I love you because you are fallible and because your poor misguided testosterone-corrupted brain has you doing cartwheels trying not to be. I love you because of all you are and because of all you're not. And because, no matter what, you are all the man I'll ever need.

Simply thinking and speaking of action is philosophy, of course. Taking action is something else. And, as with the swan, the greatest and ultimate test of a man taking action must also be his willingness, while loving life, to give his life for something he loves.

no man's death can ever give safe passage to any other man's life. At

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. -- On Calvin Coolidge

The Declaration of Independence is the all-time masterpiece of ideological simplification. There in a single sentence of self-evident truth, the founding Fathers put into clear, easily understandable focus, the broad basis of man's relationship to God, to government, and to his fellow man.

I'm in agony: I want the colorful, confused and mysterious mixture of nature. All the plants and algae, bacteria, invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals concluding man with his secrets.

They were fine and slender. At any given moment they stopped every bit as much lines, every bit much in the same state as at the beginning. Interrupted, always interrupted not because they terminated, but because no one could take them to the end. Circles were more perfect, less tragic and didn't move her enough. Circles were the work of man, finished before death and not even God could finish them better. While straight, fine, freestanding lines – were like thoughts.