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Quotes About Man

Your husband this morning! Mine tonight! What do you take him for?' 'A man' smiled Cynthia. 'And therefore, if you won't let me call him changeable, I'll coin a word and call him consolable.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell
I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.
~ Elizabeth George
The elements were "seeking" each other in rage and confusion, and in the fury of the conflict boastful man was utterly humiliated, sucked down, drowned.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no larger.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Feast, and your halls are crowded Fast, and the world goes by Succeed and give, and it helps you live But no man can help you die
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(Raven) "Makes me think of werewolves. Do you think a man can change into an animal?" (Alexander) "If he's with the right girl.
~ Ellen Schreiber
man ... thinks of himself as a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him, not only of his natural heritage, but perhaps of his future.
~ Ellen Sturgis Hooper
Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man.
~ Ellen Terry
Goodbye Norma Jean From the young man in the 22nd row Who sees you as something more than sexual More than just our Marilyn Monroe
~ Elton John
Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone.
~ Elton John
Poor cow, you'll get your dumb man. You'll see your whole life coming at you in the back of his hand.
~ Elton John
I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book.
~ Elvis Costello
I do love a man who can cook.
~ Emma Bunton
The reward in heaven is the perpetual bait, a bait that has caught man in an iron net, a strait-jacket which does not let him expand or grow.
~ Emma Goldman
Nature attains perfection, but man never does.
~ Eric Hoffer
All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.
~ Eric Hoffer
Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.
~ Eric Hoffer
A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.
~ Eric Hoffer
Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.
~ Eric Hoffer
My first four roles were all nice guys, Raggedy Man being one of them.
~ Eric Roberts
Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.
~ Ernest Hemingway
A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
~ Ernie Harwell
The gift of a bad man can bring no good.
~ Euripides
Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven - of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.
~ Euripides