Quotes About Man

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.

It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

There are three types of intelligence. The intelligence of man, the intelligence of animals and the intelligence of the military. In that order.

It's a game everybody plays. If you see a man with a beard and holler "Beaver!" it's five points. And if you see a man with a moustache, it's onlI three points.

...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.

All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could not have been invented.

A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.

As far as I'm concerned the last good man went when Elvis died.

Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.

His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.

Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.

To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

Folklore and mythology, as well as man's catastrophic disregard for nature, are the meat of Joseph D'Lacey's horror. But the prime cuts are always compassion and surprise.

A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.

I myself was and still am a child of the people. It was not for the capitalists that I undertook this struggle; it was for the German working man that I took my stand.

...the fall of man in paradise has always been followed by his expulsion.

A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little'.

High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this.