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Quotes About Man

How can you possibly be sympathetic to every fool on the planet? Just the other day, I heard a man whining about his hopeless love of cross-dressing. Call me unenlightened, but I started to laugh.
~ Deacon Jones
Christianity is different from all other religions? They deal with the story of man's search for God. The Gospels deals with the story of God's search for man.
~ Dewi Morgan
The language of my books has shaped me as a man.
~ Don DeLillo
The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.
~ Don Herold
I like David Cameron. He has had a couple of rough statements, but that's okay, I think David Cameron's a good man.
~ Donald Trump
I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.
~ Dustin Hoffman
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.
~ Dylan Thomas
The Marine Corps ... took a boy and made him a man.
~ Ed Bearss
I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.
~ Edmund Burke
What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?
~ Elie Wiesel
If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth.
~ Elizabeth I
Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty.
~ Emma Goldman
This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter
~ Eric Hoffer
The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural and human world outside.
~ Erich Fromm
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.
~ Erich Fromm
Ain't no man can outrun his fate.
~ Esi Edugyan
A home in the country is what a city man hopes to buy and a farmer hopes to sell.
~ Evan Esar
To the aircraft I aim, not the man.
~ Francesco Baracca
In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.
~ Francis Bacon
It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
~ Franz Grillparzer
I'm going to Boston to see my doctor. He's a very sick man.
~ Fred Allen
Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche