Quotes About Man

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.

Abroad? Oh no. I went to England in '91, and you stood in the garden at Fontenay and berated me." He shook his head. "This is my nation. Here I stay. A man can't carry his country on the soles of his shoes.

Tom Truth says, 'I do not know if I wrote this verse.' 'You have forgot it,' he says. 'As would any man of sense. Yet in the fifth stanza you write, Pardon me, your man, Tom Truth. Which you rhyme, unfortunately, with growth.' Christophe sniggers. 'Even I know better, and I am French.

Henry glares at him. "I will say this for you. You stick by your man." "I have never had anything from the cardinal other than kindness. Why would I not?

Even in the republic of virtue you need a man who will shovel up the shit.

they were intent on framing a 'Declaration of the Rights of Man'. Some were heard to mutter that the Assembly should write the constitution first, since rights exist in virtue of laws, but jurisprudence is such a dull subject, and liberty so exciting.

There was a man called Chaumette, scruffy and sharp-featured. He hated the aristocrats and he also hated prostitutes, and the two things used to get quite confused in his mind.

Henry is a man of great endowments, lacking only consistency, reason and sense.

man of great endowments, lacking only consistency, reason and sense.

He will never claim, later, that his heart did not turn over. He is not one to boast of a coolness no reasonable man would possess.

You feel nauseous, from the sticky heat and what you know of human nature, and you wonder why you have come. But you have been told that a man must go at least once in his life, or he won't believe it when other people tells him what went on.

Individual possession is the great entering wedge, which has split society into eight hundred million fragments.... It virtually, practically, and theoretically denies the brotherhood of man.

He is the living incarnation of evil! His name is Dio, awakened after a century of sleep! Our destiny is to fight this man!

Have you come to gloat?' I ask, frustrated. 'To stop me?' I am not sure how powerful a kelpie is out of the water and in the shape of a man. 'To surprise you,' he says. 'Aren't surprises wonderful?

Surely there is nothing more wretched than a man, of all the things which breathe and move upon the earth.

For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

But he, mighty man, lay mightily in the whirl of dust, forgetful of his horsemanship.

In the desert there is all—and yet nothing…. God is there and man is not.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?

I do not share the belief in indefinite progress for society as a whole; I believe in man's improvement in himself.

There are no priinciples, there are only events. There is no good and bad, ther are only circumstances. The superior man espouses events and circumstances in order to guide them. If there were princiles and fixed laws, nations would not change them as we change our shirts and a man cannot be expected to be wiser than an entire nation.

After the snows of Siberia, a man may well find merit in these black eyes of mine, which, as you used to say, ripened any fruit that I gazed upon.