Quotes About Man

Lo, as I gaze, the statured man, Built up from you large hand appears: A type that nature wills to plan But once in all a people's years.

To man, that was in th' evening made, Stars gave the first delight; Admiring, in the gloomy shade, Those little drops of light.

There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.

Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.

But the surface of the Earth was meant for man. He wasn't meant to live in a hole in the ground.

The law doth never enforce a man to doe a vaine thing.

But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature . . .

Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.

There was an Old Man of Columbia, Who was thirsty, and called out for some beer; But they brought it quite hot, in a small copper pot, Which disgusted that Man of Columbia.

A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does.

Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!

A Christian is the highest style of man.

Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.

And for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you.

A woman's uniqueness is her greatest appeal to a man - and his greatest challenge.

Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.

What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.

Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?

It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.

I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.

Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.

But I love you, sir: And when a woman says she loves a man, The man must hear her, though he love her not.

The voice of woman has been silenced in the state, the church, and the home, but man cannot fulfill his destiny alone, he cannot redeem his race unaided.

I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.