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Quotes About Man

Oh, man," Xavier groaned. "See what you've done-now I'm stressed." "You can't! You're the stable one!
~ Alexandra Adornetto
God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
~ Alexandre Dumas
His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!
~ Alexandre Dumas
Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
The inherent corruption of man can often bring down the best system.
~ Alexis Denisof
History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole.
~ Alfred Kazin
Man is man, and master of his fate.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
The dream Dreamed by a happy man, when the dark East, Unseen, is brightening to his bridal morn.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things, death only dies.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.
~ Alice Hegan Rice
And then like thunder broke the frost, The chill wall fell, and morrowless Immortal maid and man embraced, Their light and shadow mingling.
~ Alison Croggon
The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.
~ Alison Moyet
These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.
~ Allan Bloom
Man is God by his faculty for thought.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The Genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.
~ Amy Lowell
The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
~ Anatole France
A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.
~ Andrew Bernstein
Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption.
~ Andrew Comiskey
I've got the best lead man, I really love my lead man.
~ Anna Friel
Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it.
~ Anna Friel
It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.
~ Anna Katharine Green